Is Sen. Pat Roberts vulnerable in 2008?The Swing State Project, a liberal Web site tracking campaigns across the country, seems to think so. Some of their reasons:!¢ “Since August ’06, Roberts’ average approve-disapprove (poll numbers) has been 50.3-37.3. These are not the intimidating approval numbers of an unbeatable incumbent. If a Senator from a traditional Presidential swing state had approval numbers like these, that Senator would be a top-tier target. “¢ “A few indicators suggest that Kansas is growing more and more comfortable voting Democratic. First, compare the approval ratings of a couple of chief executives. George W. Bush’s approve-disapprove in Kansas stands at a shocking 38-60. Bush’s approval in Kansas is so low that Pat Roberts himself has begun to qualify his support of Bush’s Iraq War.”¢ “The Kansas Republican Party has seen better days. The KS-GOP is apparently near bankruptcy. The KS-GOP is getting sued over a labor dispute. And, following a spate of high profile Republicans in Kansas changing their voter affiliation to Democrat (including current statewide officeholders and a former KS-GOP Chair!), the KS-GOP has cooked up a rather creepy Unity Pledge.”But, as the Web site notes, finding a prominent Kansas Democrat to mount a challenge Roberts might be difficult.UPDATE Christian Morgan, executive director of the Kansas GOP, responds: _1. The Party is not nearly bankrupt. We have good cash on hand and are increasing money-raising daily.__2. We haven’t “cooked up a creepy Unity Pledge” – in fact – we haven’t created a Pledge at all. _Other headlines today:Rep. Nancy Boyda (D) !(Politico.com) Tax fight sends business lobby back ‘home’:Nine months after taking back Congress, Democrats lament they still have to remind the business community who’s in charge. Some Democrats grew frustrated last month when Wall Street investment interests, after courting the new majority, rushed back to longtime Republican allies at the first sign of a possible tax bill. … In the meantime, political operatives in both parties are keeping a close eye on campaign donations and coalition work to gauge the support they have from individual lobbyists. Democratic aides are still upset that business groups ran six weeks of ads against four vulnerable Democrats — Reps. Nancy Boyda of Kansas, Christopher P. Carney of Pennsylvania, Tim Mahoney of Florida and Heath Shuler of North Carolina — in opposition to a bill that would ease organizing requirements for labor unions.(Tonganoxie Mirror) Boyda: Iraq exit strategy should be Bush’s lone option: Congresswoman Nancy Boyda has high praise for the U.S. commander in Iraq, but says it’s time President Bush and his advisers prepare an exit strategy for U.S. combat troops in the oil-rich country. “We need to make decisions now on where things are, not on where they wish they were,” Boyda, D-Kan., said in a telephone interview Monday while en route to Kansas City International Airport to catch a flight back to Washington. She and her husband, Steve, had just left a get-acquainted lunch at Fort Leavenworth with its new commander, Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, and his wife, Stephanie.