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Democrat Valarie Wilson picked up a big endorsement Friday when EMILYs List announced it will support her candidacy for Georgia superintendent.

EMILYs List is a high-profile, national group that backs female Democratic office-seekers. Support from EMILYs List often opens up national fundraising opportunities for a candidate.

Wilson faces retired Irwin County educator Richard L. Woods in the superintendents race. As a Democrat, she is in a tough battle to win election in a state that currently has no Democrat in statewide office.

A poll of 1,578 likely voters conducted Aug. 24-25 for WRBL-TV and The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer showed that Wilson trails her Republican rival by about 4 percentage points just beyond the polls margin of error.

A spokeswoman for EMILYs List said the group would be providing a financial donation to the Wilson campaign, but she did not say how much or when that donation would be made. Wilson said she will work to get voters to see beyond party labels and that the EMILYs List endorsement will help with that effort.

I think party identification is real, Wilson said. We are looking at Rs and Ds instead of who is the best candidate. Ive got to get my message out.

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The Democratic nominee in Kansas has dropped out of the race for United States Senate, and there are several analysts who believe that this may actually end up helping Democrats:

The race for U.S. Senate in Kansas no longer has a Democrat in it.

In a stunning development, candidate Chad Taylor asked Wednesday that his name be removed from the ballot, paving the way for independent candidate Greg Orman to face U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts head-on in November.

After much consideration and prolonged discussion with my supporters, my staff, and party leadership at every level, I have decided to end my campaign for the United States Senate, Taylor said in an exclusive statement to The Eagle.

I have great love for the state of Kansas and the people that live here. I will continue work in their best interest every day, but effective today, my campaign is terminated, said Taylor, the district attorney for Shawnee County.

Taylor would not talk further about why he was dropping out, and Kansas Democratic Party chairwoman Joan Wagnon offered few clues as to the reasons behind his decision.

Were still assessing to see what this means, she said Wednesday evening. What I really want to see is Pat Roberts vanished from the Capitol.

Leroy Towns, Roberts campaign manager, called Orman a closet Democrat and said Roberts would prevail by running on his record.

Ormans candidacy, buoyed by television commercials and social media, has received national attention. Although he trailed both major party candidates in the polls, several analysts saw him as the candidate with momentum in the race. Taylors decision to quit came the same day that more than 70 former Republican lawmakers endorsed Orman.

Hes created a buzz for himself, and thats pretty impressive for an independent candidate, said Michael Smith, a professor of political science at Emporia State University.

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Democrat drops out of Kansas Senate race, which may help Democrats

JUDY WOODRUFF: And the other big political story of the last 24 hours is from Kansas. The U.S. Senate race there grew much more interesting late yesterday after Democratic candidate Chad Taylor abruptly announced that he was dropping out of the race.

That leaves independent Greg Orman to face off against veteran Republican incumbent Pat Roberts, who just last month survived a Tea Party primary challenge. And all of it could have far-reaching consequences for which party controls the Senate.

For more, I spoke just a short while ago to Jonathan Martin. Hes the national political correspondent for The New York Times.

Jonathan Martin, thank you for joining us at the NewsHour again.

So, why did this Democratic candidate, Chad Taylor, suddenly pull out two months before the election?

JONATHAN MARTIN, National Political Correspondent, The New York Times: Well, because, quietly, there has been pressure on him to get out because there is a well-funded independent candidate who Democrats think may actually have a shot to beat Senator Roberts this fall.

Pat Roberts is someone whos never really had a race, Judy. Hes been in Washington since 1980, when he first came to the House, came to the Senate in 1996. Hes never received below 60 percent. Why is it different now? Well, because he is somebody whos been attacked from the right for the entire year. He had a tough primary against a Tea Party opponent.

And hes made a few gaffes on the campaign trail that are connected to the fact that he doesnt have a home of his own in Kansas anymore. His primary home is in Alexandria, Virginia, in the Washington suburbs. And so he is somebody who was vulnerable to a primary challenge. He won his primary, Judy, in August, but only got 48 percent of the vote. There was some polling in the weeks after that that showed this third-party candidate, who, again, has been on TV because he has money, was competitive with Roberts.

And Democrats believed that if their own nominee was to get off the ballot and they could make the independent the de facto Democratic nominee, that they would have a shot to pull off one of the biggest upsets in Senate history, and beat Pat Roberts in Kansas, a state which has not sent a Democrat to the U.S. Senate, Judy, since 1932.

JUDY WOODRUFF: It would be it would be historic by political standards.

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