“Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) had a theory for why a chunk of voters were backing Jennifer Winn, his challenger, in the Republican gubernatorial primary: blame President Barack Obama.

“I think a big part of it is Barack Obama,” Brownback told Kansas’s 41 Action News. “That a lot of people are so irritated at what the president is doing, they just, they want somebody to throw a brick.”

Brownback won the primary on Tuesday with 63.3 percent of the vote while Winn got 36.7 percent, a surprisingly low margin of victory for the tea party-favored Brownback given that it’s the Republican primary in deep red Kansas.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sam-brownback-barack-obama-primary-election