Article: Kathleen Sebelius; Heartland: A rising Democratic star emerges on Red State soil.(Brief article)

Byline: Karen Breslau

During her first term in office, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius so impressed the former head of the state's Republican Party that he became a Democrat in order to serve as her running mate in 2006. A pro-business, pro-military, pro-choice, fiscal conservative, Sebelius easily won re-election this fall, and has emerged as the dean of a new breed of Democrats taking over what was once reliably red terrain. In recent years Colorado, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Montana, Arizona and New Mexico have sent Democrats to the ...

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