Hope this fact will not hinder Walz

[question everything]

as it may have contributed to Hillary's loss. Yes, there were many reasons why she lost but one might have been the fact that the voters, historically, switched parties after two terms. The only exception, since FDR, was papa Bush in 1988. For some unexplained reasons, the voters loved Reagan.



I read yesterday that in Minnesota, too, the voters tend switch parties of the governor after two terms. I have not lived here long enough to know, but I think that Walz is so much different from Dayton, in his style, at least, that this will not be held against him. He certainly can carry the first, fourth, fifth and eight congressional district. And he is affable, as opposed to sour face Johnson.

Hope so...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Governor elections are unique to their own states.

There isn't a pattern, at least in Minnesota. You can see that here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Minnesota Since the '60s the governors' parties have gone back and forth quite a bit, but until Pawlenty the GOP governors were for the most part centrist and probably wouldn't even qualify as Republicans now. I don't think any conclusions can be drawn from party-switching in presidential elections. Anyhow, Walz has statewide name recognition and Johnson doesn't, except that half the people in Minnesota are named Johnson.

[question everything]

3. Thanks. There was a letter in the strib by someone named Jeff Johnson

from Brooklyn Park. Don't remember the topic, but there was an "editor note" below it stating that this was not the same Jeff Johnson, the GOP candidate.

[progree]

2. Gore won in 2000, according to the news consortium that counted all the Florida votes

It was the Supreme Court, not the voters, who gave the presidency to Bush.