Wyoming governor Dave Freudenthal to seek third term?

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Term limits prevent Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal from seeking a third term in 2010. That much is a fact. But unlike in more than a dozen other states, where governors’ races are taking shape as term-limited incumbents prepare to leave the stage, in Wyoming, the contest is at a standstill as the state awaits word on Freudenthal’s plans.

More specifically, the race remains frozen in place until the governor announces whether he will sue to overturn the state’s term limits law.

Most term-limited governors would never consider such a gambit, either because of the potential for a political backlash or because the issue is considered settled law. But Freudenthal isn’t like most governors, and Wyoming’s law isn’t considered settled.

Freudenthal has long been one of the nation’s most popular governors — in 2006, the Democrat won nearly 70 percent in his reelection bid in one of the most heavily Republican states in the nation.

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