Oh no. If this is true, he suckered a lot of voters today. I feel for them because Vitter is so awful and they had a horrible choice and with Edwards looking like a good decent candidate they fell for it. Such a shame.
Thanks for the info and that is interesting about the 1994 32 Governors.
Ok seems 32 is the high (notwithstanding inauguration dates) of the 50 state era.
Since the 2014 election (+ 2 net), we’ll maintain the number of 31, exchanging LA for KY this year.
After 1994 was just 30, we picked up LA in 1995, and gained Arkansas in July 1996 when Huckabee replaced Jim Guy Tucker in Arkansas. The ‘96 (exchanged NH for WV) and ‘97 (no change, held VA and NJ), elections maintained that number of 32, 1998 reduced it by 1.
We also had 32 after the 1969 elections (gained VA and NJ) until the 1970 election when the dems scored a big net gain.
Gotta go back to the 20’s to maybe have more than 32 (of 48). Party high in terms of percentage was certainly after the Civil war with the Southern states being readmitted and going GOP, that was also the democrat nadir in Congress.