Clay Wirestone

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Kansas Reflector Podcast · Kansans speak through new survey. What do they have to say? · 3 Nov 2025 podcast

Welcome to the Kansas Reflector podcast.

I'm opinion editor Clay Weierstone.

And I'm joined today by senior reporters Tim Carpenter and Morgan Shulson to discuss the findings.

Hello to you both.

Really good to be here.

Happy to do this.

So, Tim, let's start off by taking a...

a bit of a political look at the survey.

They were looking at how many Kansans had heard of various gubernatorial candidates.

Well, and it also suggests just how open the governor's race really is, how much work everyone still has to do to kind of define themselves and, you know, and make their case.

So, Morgan, turning to you and talking about kind of a perennial issue on, again, for a survey like this, abortion rights in Kansas.

What do the survey results tell us about that?

And, you know, and again, people are quite set in ways that don't necessarily reflect what the state legislature, for instance, has been pursuing or trying to pass in recent years.

So, Tim, ping-ponging back to you now and back to politics, the survey looked also at folks' impressions, not just of folks who wanted to become government, become governor rather, but our current governor and other political leaders.

what did it find there?

is I'm sure often the case.

Morgan, looking at the Kansas economy now, because that's another thing that the researchers out at Fort Hayes State or the department at Fort Hayes State, it involves other political scientists from around Kansas to pull these surveys together.

How are Kansans feeling about economic issues right now?

Well, I think it's really interesting because we see a lot of.

i feel like we see a lot of contradictions about the economy obviously people are upset about inflationary pressures the

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