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- Lieutenant Governors: How Selection Rules Foster Diversity
- Some states let candidates for governor pick their own running mates. It's no coincidence that those states tend to end up with lieutenant governors who aren't white men.
- Categories: Governors , National Politics , State Offices , Voting Process & Voting Rules
- GA-Governor: A Job for a Legislator?
- Supporters of Nathan Deal in the Republican runoff for governor in Georgia say that former legislators make good governors. There's some evidence that they're right.
- Categories: Governors , Legislatures
- Governors: The Next Generation of Moderates
- Primaries in the last week make it more likely that, for better or for worse, there will be a new crop of centrist governors.
- Categories: Governors
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- TN-Governor: Debating the Murfreesboro Mosque
- A proposed mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee has stirred controversy. Here's what the candidates for governor have to say about it.
- Categories: Governors , Social Issues
- In Republican Primaries, Control of the Kansas House at Stake
- Today is primary day in Kansas, so, obviously, we don't have any races between Democrats and Republican. Yet today's elections still could determine who controls the Kansas House of Representatives next year. Will conservative Republicans have the majority or will moderates exercise power?
- Categories: Economic & Fiscal Issues , Governors , Legislatures
- Rick Snyder: A Moderate Republican for Michigan?
- Rick Snyder is running a mostly non-ideological campaign for governor, touting his competence, business acumen and outsider status. It's a very bad time to be a Republican moderate. But, Snyder might win the nomination tomorrow anyway.
- Categories: Governors
- How Close Was Texas to Redistricting Reform?
- As State Senator Jeff Wentworth tells it, Texas would have placed a bipartisan commission in charge of congressional redistricting -- a move that could have been the difference between a Republican and Democratic House of Representatives after the 2012 elections -- if it weren't for the sense of legislative courtesy of a single state senator. It makes a great story, but is it true?
- Categories: Governors , Legislatures , National Politics , Redistricting & Reapportionment
- 1 Comments
- Sam Brownback's Difficult Decision on Medicaid Funding
- So far, Kansas Senator Sam Brownback is opposing extended state aid for Medicaid, even though approving the money would make life easier for future Kansas Governor Sam Brownback.
- Categories: Economic & Fiscal Issues , Governors , Legislatures , National Politics
- 1 Comments
- Why Kansas Raised Taxes
- Kansas is a conservative state with a Republican-controlled legislature. Nonetheless, this year lawmakers approved a temporary sales tax increase. Why did Kansas raise taxes? Senate President Steve Morris makes the case that his state didn't have any other choice.
- Categories: Economic & Fiscal Issues , Governors , Legislatures
- 1 Comments
- John Oxendine and the Failings of Republican Frontrunners
- Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine was expected to be the Republican nominee for governor. He finished fourth in the primary. But, he can take a small measure of solace that it's been a rough year for Republican frontrunners in other states too.
- Categories: Governors , Parties & Interest Groups
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