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U.S. Senate race in Kansas between Marshall, Hamilton likely to consume more than $50 million
['Tim Carpenter Kansas Reflector', 'Tom Davies Indiana Capital Chronicle', 'Richard Eberwein', 'J. Patrick Coolican Minnesota Reformer']
Heartland Signal
TOPEKA — Roger Marshall and Adam Hamilton will test in November the legacy of nearly a century of partisan dominance by Republicans over Democrats in U.S. Senate elections in Kansas.
Campaign spending in the Senate contest was expected to surpass $50 million during the next three months, said Bob Beatty, a political science professor at Washburn University in Topeka.
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Holscher also took an anti-establishment approach in the primary, Beatty said.
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