While the fight for the House of Representatives will take center stage next year, another battle could be almost as important for the two parties: control of a handful of big-state governorships.
Republicans like to point out that while they lost the presidency and seats in both chambers…
Last year, President Barack Obama toured competitive presidential states, such as Ohio, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Nevada, touting an economy that was regaining its footing. Over the next two years, Democrats will be trying to defeat Republican governors in each of those states as they try to recapture the…
ALABAMA -- Robert Bentley (R), elected 2010 (58%).
Any threat to Bentley would likely come in the primary (since Democrats aren’t expected to mount a serious threat next fall), but it doesn’t look as though that will materialize. In 2010, Bentley ran as the outsider, finished second in…
IOWA -- Terry Branstad (R), elected 2010 (53%); elected 1982 (53%), 1986 (52%), 1990 (61%) and 1994 (57%).
Since he hasn’t officially announced his intentions, there is a possibility that Branstad doesn’t run for re-election. But according to local sources, the Republican has openly talked about becoming the…
NEW YORK -- Andrew Cuomo (D), elected 2010 (63%).
Cuomo is running two campaigns: one for re-election and another for president in 2016. The former race is a virtual lock, but the latter will be slightly more of a challenge. Currently Safe for Democrats.
Quinnipiac Univ., Dec.…
While this year’s race for governor in Virginia will draw plenty of attention, the 2013 gubernatorial contest in New Jersey looks like a yawner.
But it’s a mistake to draw too grand a conclusion from Republican Gov. Chris Christie’s current standing in the polls, either for how he…
While most political attention these days is focused on the nation’s capital and President Barack Obama’s second term, across the river in Virginia, politicians from both parties are preparing for what seems to be the oddest gubernatorial race the state has seen in years.
Each party is poised…
Wow, what a political cycle. It was filled with twists, turns and surprises.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the Iowa caucuses — until he didn’t (almost two weeks after the actual balloting, when former Sen. Rick Santorum was certified as the winner).
After finishing a distant…
After an election cycle that saw tens of thousands of television ads and millions of dollars of candidate spending in the Old Dominion, the worst may be yet to come for Virginia voters.
Off-year gubernatorial contests in the commonwealth have been nasty, brutish, and yes, short, in the…
Four years ago, Chris Christie became the first Republican to get elected governor of the Garden State in a decade, but he failed to reach 49 percent against an unpopular incumbent. Next year, the governor could win re-election, but it might it be considered a wind-aided victory from Hurricane…
