Kansas is one of the fastest-rising stories on Reddit right now. Over roughly 15 hours, 4 threads about it surfaced across 2 subreddits, most of the conversation happening in r/news and r/politics. Together they have drawn about 34.7K upvotes and 922 comments.
What the sources report
The articles behind the biggest threads, quoted directly from each publisher’s own summary.
- NBC News: Democrat Adam Hamilton pulls off upset over GOP Sen. Roger Marshall in Kansas
NBC News projects that Hamilton, a pastor and former Republican, will become the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in deep red Kansas since 1932.
- The Guardian: Adam Hamilton wins in Kansas to become state’s first Democrat in Senate since 1932
Pastor clinches victory over incumbent Roger Marshall in state that emerged as unexpected battleground this year
Where Reddit is talking about it
| Community | Threads | Upvotes | Comments | First thread |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| r/news | 1 | 32,985 | 748 | Nov 4, 04:21 UTC |
| r/politics | 3 | 1,724 | 174 | Nov 4, 11:18 UTC |
The biggest threads
- Democrat Adam Hamilton pulls off upset over GOP Sen. Roger Marshall in Kansasr/news · 32,985 upvotes · 748 comments · Nov 4, 04:21 UTC · NBC News
- Adam Hamilton becomes first Democrat elected to US Senate from Kansas in 94 yearsr/politics · 709 upvotes · 64 comments · Nov 4, 19:34 UTC · Reuters
- Adam Hamilton wins in Kansas to become state’s first Democrat in Senate since 1932r/politics · 691 upvotes · 57 comments · Nov 4, 11:18 UTC · The Guardian
- The Christian left is here - With James Talarico and Adam Hamilton’s victories in Texas and Kansas, a movement to reclaim religion from the right has its first big wins.r/politics · 324 upvotes · 53 comments · Nov 4, 11:22 UTC · vox.com
Timeline on Reddit
- First thread we found, in r/news: “Democrat Adam Hamilton pulls off upset over GOP Sen. Roger Marshall in Kansas”
- The biggest thread so far is posted in r/news (32,985 upvotes, 748 comments by our last count).
- The story reaches r/politics: “Adam Hamilton wins in Kansas to become state’s first Democrat in Senate since 1932”
- Latest thread in our sample, in r/politics.
How this page is made
SubMouse watches dozens of large, safe-for-work subreddits and Google's trending searches. When several communities start talking about the same event at the same time, we group those threads into one story and publish this page, then refresh it while the story keeps rising. The counts are ours; everything said about the event itself is quoted and credited to the post or outlet it comes from. Claims in Reddit posts are unverified unless an outlet confirms them. Upvote and comment counts come from Reddit's public data via the Arctic Shift archive and can lag. Spotted a mistake? Tell us. Not affiliated with Reddit.