Addressing the Kansas City Chamber, Kansas City Power & Light and Hallmark Corporation on my measure of the midterms a week out.

I was honored to participate recently at the National Archives forum on wave elections hosted by the U.S.Association of Former Members of Congress.

We are approaching the home stretch. Contemplate these eye-raising headlines at dawn November 7 that will have you brewing another pot of coffee . . .

As we survey the election landscape three weeks out the House is getting bluer and the Senate redder.

The political drama unfolding in West Virginia with the impeachment of the entire state supreme court has the makings of a novel.

To all the commentary flooding the airways and web this morning (and even the few newspapers that still exist), let me add but three points . . .