Anger at DC Shapes Races

The top Democrat running for governor of Kansas is lagging badly in the polls, but he thinks he has found a winning strategy in the campaign of Republican Gov. Rick Perry of Texas.

Mr. Perry cruised to a commanding victory Tuesday in his gubernatorial primary by tapping into voters’ seething anger at Washington. Governor for more than a decade, Mr. Perry is hardly an outsider-but he is defiantly outside the Beltway.