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Pat Roberts has represented the great state of Kansas in the U.S. Senate since 1997, bringing, as his reelection campaign website puts it, "Kansas values to Washington." Not that he actually lives in Kansas; as The New York Times reports, Roberts' official Kansas home address is a house belonging to some donors. But, Roberts was quick to point out, "I have full access to the recliner."

In fact, Roberts and his wife don't even own a home in Dodge City, much less live there regularly. The Times' Jonathan Martin notes that their main residence — in the sense of "where they reside" — is actually in the D.C. suburb of Alexandria, Virginia where Franki Roberts is a realtor, selling Virginia homes to other people. In essence, Roberts rents space in the golf-course-adjacent Kansas home of C. Duane Ross and his family, paying $300 a month for access to that La-Z-Boy.

And he's only paid that rent since he acquired a conservative primary challenger. Roberts — whose campaign website also brags about National Journal identifying him as the eighth most conservative Senator — doesn't really seem to be at too much risk. His opponent, Milton Wolf, fared poorly in a poll commissioned by Roberts, as challengers tend to do, but also trails badly in fundraising. Two prominent conservative groups have backed Wolf, including the increasingly prominent Senate Conservatives Fund. SCF's Matt Hoskins explains the rationale simply: "[A]fter more than 20 years in Washington it’s time for a change." But you know won't help Pat Roberts counter the argument that he's closer to Washington than to those Kansas values? The fact that he lives in Washington and not in Kansas.