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[deleted] t1_ivpiavp wrote

Reply to comment by Chippopotanuse in Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly wins re-election, defeating GOP challenger Derek Schmidt, NBC News projects by Hrekires

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nonlawyer t1_ivqarxg wrote

> and Maryland, California and Massachusetts, all of whom are sold democratic controlled have had Republican governors in the recent history.

Vermont just re-elected its Republican Governor with nearly 70% of the vote. 70%! In Bernie Sanders’ state!

If things were remotely normal people would be talking about Phil Scott as an obvious presidential contender. But everyone knows he couldn’t win a GOP primary since he’s not foaming at the mouth to burn trans people at the stake or whatever

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Maxpowr9 t1_ivrdxj3 wrote

Reminds me of 2018 where Republican Governor Charlie Baker won by a bigger margin than Senator Elizabeth Warren did that year.

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derpbynature t1_ivy17rc wrote

To be fair, a Vermont Republican and a Kansas Democrat are probably both rather moderate, out of necessity.

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lilaprilshowers t1_ivrrbu4 wrote

My theory is that people like a governor who can veto the worse excess of their own party. Phil Scott vetoed a bill to legalize sex work which of course, had it passed, would have turned Vermont into the sex tourism destination for the entire East Coast.

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thisgirlnamedbree t1_ivqsmmt wrote

I'm in Maryland, and Democrat Wes Moore overwhelmingly beat his challenger Dan Cox for governor. Cox is a Trump supporter endorsed by Agent Orange. Even though we are considered a blue state, there's pockets of conservatives, and the county I live in is one of those pockets. Also, the outgoing Republican governor, Larry Hogan, was a moderate who couldn't stand Trump.

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Maxpowr9 t1_ivre2ex wrote

Same with MA. Republican was a Trumper and he got soundly defeated.

The northeast loves its Rockefeller Republicans but they are basically extinct now.

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Unlucky-Apartment347 t1_ivqw0gr wrote

And Joan Finney before Sibelius. Dennis Moore was in House of Rep about 10 years. He was a Dem. People do make good decisions sometime. KS is not the monolithic R stronghold that media types want to portray often especially urban areas.

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[deleted] t1_ivr2zse wrote

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Unlucky-Apartment347 t1_ivr61mq wrote

Are you a Kansan?

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Unlucky-Apartment347 t1_ivr8qug wrote

Sharice Davids (female, openly gay, Native American) was elected to a third term in HOR despite the extreme gerrymandering that was done to her by the Republican legislature last session post census. And yes Johnson, Sedgwick, and Wyandotte counties are urban. Maybe doesn’t fit your idea of urban but they are. And no pundits were expecting the recent abortion vote. So not so monolithic.

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Cereal_No t1_ivtoy5m wrote

Mist isn't wrong though (am Kansan here). With our political system generally valuing land mass more than population at this point (nationally), Kansas is and remains a GOP stronghold on both the state and federal levels due to how consolidated democratic areas (Wichita... barely, and the KC metro) are. Granted, more often than not its not foaming at the mouth Trump country (I think Brownback was a good lead off to move us away from that) but there is definitely republican dominating ideals in our politics and governing. We thankfully tend to have strong non-elected public servants who know how to work within confines to get things done in responsible and egalitarian manners generally, plus home rule, helps to counter act the crazy talking points like "Sue Joe Biden" (for what exactly?) with no standing.

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meatball77 t1_ivro3uc wrote

The Oklahoma governors race was actually competitive this year. That's insane.

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