ID-GOV 2022: Janice McGeachin In

[ChelseaT]

Seems like Kristi Noem 2.0. Bummer.

So who's the Billie Sutton to at least make it close?

Sadly unlike in SD there are no sitting D candidates from outside Boise (or Pocatello or Sun Valley) who can run on any sort of credible rural appeal.

Paulette was probably the best we were going to get!

No random Liberal Business owner from a rural area with some delusions of Grandeur that the party can recruit ?

A liberal isn't going to make it close. Idaho dems do better with candidates who'd be Republicans pretty much anywhere else. I could see Dr. John Rusche the former state house minority leader making it somewhat close. He's popular in his home region, and really only lost because Trump was on the ballot.

[ChelseaT]

Seems like Kristi Noem 2.0. Bummer.

So who's the Billie Sutton to at least make it close?

Sadly unlike in SD there are no sitting D candidates from outside Boise (or Pocatello or Sun Valley) who can run on any sort of credible rural appeal.

Paulette was probably the best we were going to get!

Yeah...also Idaho is redder than South Dakota, and 2022 isn't going to be as Dem-friendly as 2018, sooooo

Any idea why the gubernatorial race was relatively close (<15 points) in the red wave of 2014? Sabato even had the race as "Likely R" on Election Day so there must have been something going on to suggest it was slightly competitive? I know Otter had a tough primary but wondering if there's more to it than that.

Balukoff is pretty conservative. Made a big deal about being a strong supporter of gun rights and voting for Romney. There’s also a certain element of the far right that hated otter because he wasn’t afraid to use the guard against neo nazi communes.