2014 US Gubernatorial Election Results

[Nichlemn]

Scott now 48-47 with 33% of election day vote in.

Any idea on how representative this vote is?

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Worth noting that Milne needs to hit 50% to win, due to Vermont's law. If you don't hit 50%, the legislature chooses the governor, so Shumlin still wins.

Jim Douglas (R) won despite getting <50% with a Dem legislature. Dunno if they'd be partisan enough to vote for the popular vote loser if this happened.

[Nichlemn]

Coakley leads by 2000 votes with 64.4% in.

If she wins by 0.1%, the news story will be about her "redemption". If she loses by 0.1%, she'll be the "Democrat who blew two races". Either will be silly.

[Nichlemn]

So Repubicans netting 3 governorships + some upside? Crazy!

[Nichlemn]

Looks like Alaska is joining the sanity island in this race.

Now even Palin can see the sanity island from her house.

I'm rather confused. I thought Walker was the de facto D in this race, but if he was endorsed by Palin, what does that make him? Is it just a weird grudge by Palin or something, or is Walker to the right of Parnell?

[Nichlemn]

Some interesting notes:

Sandoval may have the highest percentage of the vote of any governor, at 70.6%. He's closely followed by fellow Republicans Duagaard in SD and Haslam in TN. No Democratic candidate for governor got over 60% - the closest was Brown at 58.7%. Second is... Wolf, at 54.9%.

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Also, every state in the continental US with a northern border at or below approx the 37th parallel (Arizona through North Carolina and below) now has a Republican governor. 

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Uncannily similar to the Presidential results. Usually for these sorts of maps there are a number of glaring state boundaries when you cross from a state with a popular candidate of one party goes to a popular candidate of the other. But other than closely looking at the shades of blue between say, Iowa and Minnesota, that doesn't exist here. A lot of this because there were no large overperfomances of the Presidential result in ways that flipped a bunch of counties (no Mike Beebes, for instance).

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This may a bit macabre, but I can't deny that's it's hilarious that Kashkari only won ONE county in all of California.

In hindsight this comment was clearly based on inaccurate information (I even saw a map of IL that showed Rauner sweeping everywhere including Cook), but now I'm curious to know which single county Kashkari had apparently won. 

Wait, Rauner didn't sweep everything but Cook?  According to the Atlas he did.