Posted on 11/03/2004 6:44:21 PM PST by Ahriman
There is a former farmer. There's a son of the man who invented McDonald's Styrofoam hamburger boxes. And there is Dino Rossi - or maybe not.
They are among the 11 governors elected Wednesday in a slate of state elections almost completely lost amid the national fixation on Ohio.
But political scientists have often turned to state races to take the true pulse of the country, and Tuesday's elections provided a grass-roots amplification of the nation's partisan split. Of the 11 states that chose governors Tuesday, two switched from Democrats to Republicans, while two flipped the other way - with Washington State still up in the air between Republican Dino Rossi and Democrat Christine Gregoire - leaving Republicans with a 28-to-21 gubernatorial advantage.
Statehouses are even more closely divided. Of the approximately 7,000 partisan state legislative seats in America, Republicans held a roughly 60-seat advantage going into Tuesday's vote - the smallest margin since such statistics were first compiled in 1938. Apparently, that gap has now narrowed further, with Democrats making significant gains outside the South.
"At the end of the day, it appears that it may have gotten even tighter," says Tim Storey, a legislative analyst at the National Conference for State Legislatures in Denver.
only one HUGE fallacy with this "report" ...
A southern Democrat is much MUCH more conservative than a northern republican - especially a north-eastern one!
LOL. Here we go again. America wasn't divided when Clinton won with 43%??
FALLACY = FLAW
sorry, I changed my train of thought while I was typing.
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