...Wait a minute.

[slick8790]

I just realized.

Everyone talking about Gov. Freudenthal's endorsement today.

It did not occur to me until just now, how did a democrat get elected governor of Wyoming? Is he a DINO? Or what?

Seems really odd to me, as I had always thought wyoming was one of the reddest of the red states.

[NEDem]

1. It can happen,

Think Bob Kerrey, of Nebraska. A strong populist message works well around here.

[Ned_Devine]

2. Who did he endorse?

[Lerkfish]

3. Ohio (allegedly) is a red state, but elected Strickland.

Of course, it helped that Taft was the worst governor in recorded history.

:)

[Nicole]

4. Oklahoma's governor, Brad Henry, is also a democrat.

Oklahoma is also one of the reddest states there is yet we vote blue for gov. most of the time. :shrug:

[ClassWarrior]

5. Russ Feingold consistently wins with a HUGE number of (R)s & (I)s...

He doesn't think of an elephant...

The losing strategy is to move to the right, to assume with Republicans that American values are mainly conservative and that the Democratic party has to move away from its base and adopt conservative values. When you do that, you help activate conservative values in people's brains (thus helping the other side), you offend your base (thus hurting yourself), and you give the impression that you are expressing no consistent set of values, which is true! Why should the American people trust somebody who does not have clear values, and who may be trying to deceive them about the values he and his party's base hold?...

http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/research/lakoff/no-center-no-centrists

NGU.

[tpsbmam]

6. It's not all that unusual -- look at NC...

The governor is a Democrat, the legislature (both houses) have a Democratic majority, both U.S. Senators are Republican (Dole & Burr :puke: :puke: ) & representatives to Congress are a real mix, but it's considered a red state. Here's the Congressional map of NC:



IMO it's false to consider states red and blue -- it limits us and gives us false impressions about possibilities.

[grantcart]

7. Montana has a democrat Governor and Senator