Kansas is not even 3rd tier battleground state!
Kansas is close to being an almost-swing state.
Obama only took Wyandotte County (Kansas City) and Douglas County (a college town), yet these two plus roughly half the voters in Kansas City's wealthy white suburban counties gave Obama 40% of the vote in 2008 and 2012.
If college-educated whites in Eastern Kansas go for Hillary by a big enough margin, she wins Kansas. Which, if not tactically important, is a huge symbolic victory.