ID-GOV 2022: Janice McGeachin In

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Yet another Republican has entered the primary race. Steve Bradshaw, a Bonner County Commissioner, announced today:

https://redoubtnews.com/2021/07/commissioner-bradshaw-announces-for-idaho-governor/

Hard to see how Little loses this with such a divided opposition.

Of course, Little has not announced yet, but I would be surprised if he didn't run again. He's been fundraising for a while and has taken in some big money.

Is there any geographical divide in Idaho that his opponents can leverage in the primary ? like trying to paint him as the canidate of boise or something ?

I don't think that will happen. If it does, it won't stick. Little is very much more a rancher type. He's from Emmett.

I'm wondering if Resenment against the rapid population growth in Ada County is going to play a role in this primary ?. It might be allow a far-right Canidate attract some more moderate support by taking a populist postion on that issue against traditional republican orthordoxy.

It didn't help Wayne Richey in the Boise mayoral election in 2019. That was pretty much his entire platform and he only got 847 votes (out of over 53k).

Isn't boise proper pretty liberal and democratic with relatively few republican votes ? I'm thinking such a message would resonate more in the suburbs  ?

Yeah, Boise itself is liberal. The suburbs are still fairly conservative, although I feel like that's slowly changing with population growth and general trends.

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I'm surprised Sandpoint's mayor is a Democrat.

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I'm surprised Sandpoint's mayor is a Democrat.

The city voted for Biden 49.9-47.1 and Dems got 57.8% in the Gov race in 2018 there.

Really? That is not something I would have expected at all.

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Couldn’t happen to a nicer person.

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Janice is f**king nuts. Glad she’ll get crushed tomorrow and we’ll hopefully never hear from her again.