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nkpolitics1212

(8,617 posts)
Sun Aug 12, 2018, 02:24 PM Aug 2018

2018 Gubernatorial Elections- Republican held Governorships Democrats are likely to win.

1)AZ- Garcia-D
2)FL- Graham-D
3)GA- Abrams-D
4)IL- Pritzker-D
5)IA- Hubbell-D
6)KS- Kelly-D vs Kobach-R
7)ME- Mills-D
8)MI- Whitmer-D
9)NV- Sisolak-D
10)NM- Lujan Grisham-D
11)OH- Cordray-D
12)OK- Edmondson-D
13)TN- Dean-D
14)WI- Evers-D

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2018 Gubernatorial Elections- Republican held Governorships Democrats are likely to win. (Original Post) nkpolitics1212 Aug 2018 OP
Hoping my home state of GA elects Stacey Abrams! Different Drummer Aug 2018 #1
SC has an especially stupid incumbent SCantiGOP Aug 2018 #2
Hollings last term was in 1998- The Republican Nominee was Bob Inglis. nkpolitics1212 Aug 2018 #3
Damn, you're right SCantiGOP Aug 2018 #4

SCantiGOP

(13,866 posts)
2. SC has an especially stupid incumbent
Sun Aug 12, 2018, 06:11 PM
Aug 2018

Henry McMaster, a former Reagan-era US Attorney, had run 4 times for statewide office, and finally won the 2014 Lt Gov race because no one else wanted the $35,000 mostly ceremonial job. Then, he became the first statewide elected official to endorse Trump, and moved into the Gov office when Trump put Nikki Haley at the UN.
We have a good Dem candidate, served two tours in Iraq, and has an outside shot but probably needs a few missteps from McMaster to pull off the upset.

McMaster ran against our long-serving Dem Senator Fritz Hollings when he ran for His last term. Desperate for some issue to get some attention, he threw out an innuendo by challenging that they both take a drug test and agree to make the results public. Without missing a beat, Fritz said, “I’ll take a drug test and make it public if Henry will take an IQ test and make it public.”
Hollings won easily in what most people thought was McMaster’s last race.

(Edited to point out that Governors elected this year will oversee their state’s re-districting after the 2020 census.)

nkpolitics1212

(8,617 posts)
3. Hollings last term was in 1998- The Republican Nominee was Bob Inglis.
Mon Aug 13, 2018, 07:10 PM
Aug 2018

Bob Inglis was elected to his old US House seat and later lost his seat in the Republican primary to Trey Gowdy.

SCantiGOP

(13,866 posts)
4. Damn, you're right
Mon Aug 13, 2018, 10:03 PM
Aug 2018

You should have bet me. McMaster ran against him back in 1986.
I do remember that Fritz came close to winning that race 2:1, even while the state was turning red.

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