[Fee]

Argument has always been Dems can win Senate races better then GOP because their candidates are more centrists, but the same issue arises in gov races. Yet 34 states have GOP governors, then why don’t we have 68 GOP Senators? GOP need to determine why they win governorships and replicate the success in the Senate. Even during the 1994 conservative revolution where the House for the first time in forty years went GOP, the hold on the Senate was never that strong. It cannot be GOP can not win statewide support otherwise how did the GOP win governorships??

[foreverfree]

Doesn't Nebraska have a one-house legislature?

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[cripplecreek]

I wouldn’t exactly call Debbie Stabenow a centrist but Rick Snyder most definitely is. In fact it highlights one of my pet peeves.

Republicans are expected to moderate while democrats have run to full on marxism with zero friction.

[central_va]

Repeal the 17th Amendment. The Senate would be a super majority Republican.

[chrisser]

It cannot be GOP can not win statewide support otherwise how did the GOP win governorships

I think at least one factor is that the Democrats are the party of pork.

State governments are spending state revenues and determining state taxes.

The fed is taking everyone's money and then distributing it as largess. I think most feel there's little, if anything, they can do to stop the feds from taking their money - their only power is to elect someone to try to get as much of it back as possible, and that will almost always be a 'rat.

[AFPhys]

The reason that there are GOP governors in some of the deep blue states is that those “GOP governors” are very much RINOs.

Check out the last NY and CA GOP governors for example, elected when their legislators and national reps were strongly Dem.

I am sure that is true for many of the other states for which there are GOP govs in nominally “blue” states. I am not sure we wish to gain more RINO senators from those states.

On the other hand, those states which have GOP control of ALL branches amount to 50 Senators. THOSE are the states we NEED to be examining and purging of Dem Senators. It is disgusting how many of those exist, due largely to the invulnerability of incumbents.