With most of my blogs on hiatus, this is one that I still feel has to be updated. And with March Madness approaching, I still feel like keeping track of the gubernatorial races for reasons that I will explain in my blog on either Survivor or CSI: Vegas in addition to this blog. I feel sorry for the readers of my Good Wife blog. I told them honestly in the last post that I wouldn’t know when my next post would be so now I don’t have to tell them in a special post about the hiatus. But they might be waiting a long time until it returns. I also don’t yet know if there will be a post of this blog in April at the moment, although I might rig things so that it does.
Anyways,
in the grouping that I care about regarding whether or not different governors
stay in office, two of them have left office. The states of Michigan,
Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Washington, Oregon,
California, New Jersey, Nevada, Delaware, and New Mexico all had to have
their governor stay in office and some of them weren’t even on the ballot.
While most of those states had their
governors reelected, that wasn’t the case in Nevada as their governor, Steve
Sisolak, lost to challenger Joe Lombardo. He was the only Democratic governor
to lose reelection this cycle, the first since 2014 and the only pandemic era
governor thus far whom this applies to. Also note that the governor of Oregon,
Kate Brown, was term limited so she couldn’t stay in office. Those two states
are out of automatic support in future March Madness teams as a result. This does
not affect any team from those states that I rooted for in the previous two
years.
Normally Democrats don’t do good in
gubernatorial elections when a Democrat is governor. But polling was largely on
their side. And when it comes to what I call bad polling, that is, when an
election does not have the result supported in polling, what normally affects
Democrats negatively actually wound up being bad for Republicans as of the two
polls that said a Republican would win in Wisconsin and Arizona were both wrong
with the Democrat winning in both cases. The Arizona GOP in 2022 might even get
their own special blog post over just how kooky they were.
Republicans
liked to criticize the Democrats over their handling of the pandemic. This was
going to be a potential selling point for the Republican Party. But they never
really used it at all. They had supporters rally again them at some point, or,
at least Trump did.
But
when it came down to which party was worse at handling the pandemic, it was
clearly hands down the Republicans. Various governors of theirs handled it
poorly and, sadly, almost none of them paid the price for it by losing
reelection. Still, it does not help the blame Biden narrative that Republicans
had for this since the moment he took office when you realize that the states with
the highest per capita dead of covid all have Republican governors.
Some
bad ones will still be in office for a while to come. Look at Kevin Stitt of
Oklahoma. He has effectively legalized vehicle ramming attacks in his state or
call it policy not to reply to a black owned media site.
I
can’t even remember some of these stories for sure. I do know already that
nearly all of the governors that I hate that won the elections in 2022, most of
them will be term limited and I have already started counting down to when some
of them leave. The next one won’t be out for sure at any point after January of
2027. But I can only hope that someone beats him out of office.
The
gubernatorial race in Georgia was seen as a more important one. It seems like
many on the right are quick to bash Stacey Abrams as if she doesn’t have good
reasons for saying that her election loss in 2018 wasn’t entirely fair. I would
be concerned if she says that about the race that she lost fair and square in
2022. But you can read on if you don’t believe me.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/19/georgia-governor-race-voter-suppression-brian-kemp
There
is at least one person that I don’t want to be president more than Trump and
that person is Ron DeSantis, the worst of the current governors who thinks that
he can change ex post facto law. How cute. By all means, continue your crusade
of not wanting people to vote and then wonder why people don’t like you.
One
of the new governors is former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee
Sanders. I am still in the give her a chance phrase, but I don’t have high
hopes for her. Here’s a made up story about what she supposedly going to say
before the state of the union address not too long ago. She better hope that
she does well because I’m not making a special trip to her state next year if
she winds up being a terrible governor. I already know that I’m not going to
Texas any time soon for the same reason.
There’s
a lot more that I could still say about the elections, but I won’t. The 2022
elections that happened for governor went well for Democrats in the long run in
regards to open seats and not losing some of what they were projected to. They had
a net gain of 2 seats. I just wish that they could have gotten some of the more
high profile seats and beaten more of the governors in the Republican Party. Still,
they did pretty well in the end.
