Talk:Jim Barnett (politician)

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I edited the religous preference here because Sen. Barnett has for over several years now been attending the local Baptist church. Situveux1

The CNN source was to illustrate that Kansas has a Republican majority. Burroughsks88

• I edit-conflicted; my response is below. (ESkog)^(Talk) 21:37, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Citing sources

Articles about living people have to cite sources for every claim they make, especially for particularly controversial ones (and EVERY statement of where an individual stands on a political issue can be controversial). I don't think that citing old CNN data that 50% of Kansas is Republican is enough to make a claim that Sebelius's re-election is in serious doubt, and in fact most current polls say the opposite. To make the leap of logic from the number of registered Republicans to the potential outcome of the election seems to me to constitute a large amount of original research. We need to make sure that when we make claims like this, we are always using reliable sources that actually say what we say they say. (ESkog)^(Talk) 21:37, 7 August 2006 (UTC)