Will F.D. People
bgrieser
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« on: December 22, 2004, 12:37:13 PM » |
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Now that the 2004 election is history, I am thinking that the whole idea of the Governor really helping the nominee is over-rated, and I think New Mexico is a prime example of that.
If I recall, two years ago on election night there was some crowing about how the Democrats picking up some governorships spelled trouble for Bush in 2004. The theory went that with the governor of the state being a Democrat this would make it easier to organize the election campaign in the state of whomever the Democratic nominee was. Never mind that the 2002 election was an unmitigated disaster for the Democrats, who also lost governorships in Democratic stongholds like Hawaii and Maryland; it looked to me like this was the old proverbial trying to put a shine on a sneaker (or something else).
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