Rhode Island's 2022 race for governor

[President Johnson]

Unelected gov or not, 32% of the primary vote and a 2 pt. margin is still kind of embarrassing for an incumbent who has been there for 18 months and been elected in a separate lt. gov. election 4 years ago.

Elections like this show that ranked choice voting is a huge improvement.

It's interesting though that McKee almost lost renomination in 2018 as lt. governor against a then 28-year old state representative named Aaron Regunberg (the result was 51-49%). I wonder whether Biden would still have taken Raimondo out the governor's chair had this guy won? And if so, how he'd do now as 32 year old governor running for reelection?

[Blue3]

Unelected gov or not, 32% of the primary vote and a 2 pt. margin is still kind of embarrassing for an incumbent who has been there for 18 months and been elected in a separate lt. gov. election 4 years ago.

This has been every RI election for governor for at least 12 years. We need runoffs or ranked choice.

[Sir Mohamed]

Unelected gov or not, 32% of the primary vote and a 2 pt. margin is still kind of embarrassing for an incumbent who has been there for 18 months and been elected in a separate lt. gov. election 4 years ago.

This has been every RI election for governor for at least 12 years. We need runoffs or ranked choice.

Agreed.

Do you think McKee would have lost a runoff?

[Spectator]

I don’t know why Rhode Island isn’t talked about more as a dark horse flip with McKee’s scandals and whatnot.

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

I don’t know why Rhode Island isn’t talked about more as a dark horse flip with McKee’s scandals and whatnot.

Well the Republican nominee is an Illinois politician so

[cinyc]

Not of the official results (at least yet), but I mapped the RI Dem primaries here:

https://cinycmaps.com/index.php/state-maps/ri/ri-2022-dem-primaries

Have the RI results gone official yet? I haven’t checked since shortly after election night.

[Blue3]

I don’t know why Rhode Island isn’t talked about more as a dark horse flip with McKee’s scandals and whatnot.

McKee doesn't really have scandals, just the shadow of that education contracting bid. Kalus does have real scandals.

[Blue3]

Looks like McKee won decisively by a huge margin (for Rhode Island), could be the biggest lead by a winner since either 2002 or 1992.