GOP now has 33 governors, including deep blue Vermont
Posted on | December 26, 2016 | 1 Comment
Republicans built on their gubernatorial and legislative dominance in Tuesday’s elections, shrugging off an onslaught of Democratic spending to flip three governors’ seats.
Buoyed by the political wave created by Republican President-elect Donald Trump and dissatisfaction with rising health care costs under Obamacare, GOP candidates wrested control of gubernatorial seats in Missouri, New Hampshire and Vermont.
Those victories raised the party’s total from 31 to 33, the largest number of GOP governors since 1922, according to the Republican Governors Association.
The Republicans’ big night came even though Democrats, who have vowed to reverse their decline in the states, outspent the GOP by $2.5 million in television ads, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis.
Democrats are clear-eyed about the size of the hole they’re in. It’s deep. Every president loses seats for his party, but no president in U.S. history has presided over bigger losses than Barack Obama. In the eight years he’s been in office, Democrats have lost so many seats at every level of government that they now have fewer elected officials nationwide than at any time since the 1920s.
Not only are they in the minority in every branch of government in Washington, but beyond the beltway Democrats have a “trifecta” — control of both state houses and the governor’s mansion — in only 6 states. Republicans have total control of state government in 25 states.
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December 26th, 2016 @ 8:42 am
Those six states include the largest and wealthiest, though, with NY, CA and IL