The New York Times reports that Cindy Holscher, a lawmaker from suburban Kansas City, narrowly defeated Republican Ty Masterson, the Kansas Senate president, to become Kansas governor and keep the office in Democratic hands for a third straight term. Democrats also broke the Republican supermajority in the state House, unseated Attorney General Kris W. Kobach, and, with Adam Hamilton's Senate win, claimed their first Senate race there since the 1930s.