Success could make Orman ‘a marked man’

While Republicans are trying to paint independent U.S. Senate candidate Greg Orman as a “Democrat in disguise,” the Economist magazine argued in a column headlined “Stormin’ Orman” that “Orman is attempting something more interesting, even radical.” It noted that Orman “is asking Kansans to send him to Washington to disrupt two-party politics itself.” Orman contends that each party spends too much time demonizing the other and not enough time building the bipartisan majorities needed to tackle hard problems. “Orman is right to explore alternatives to partisan, zero-sum politics,” the magazine concluded. “But his very success to date makes him a marked man. He surely faces weeks of brutal attack ads. America’s political tribes are not ready to share power.” – Phillip Brownlee

This story was originally published September 15, 2014 at 12:09 PM with the headline "Success could make Orman ‘a marked man’."