| | Voters in 11 states to choose governors this fall
Sep 5 2008 4:54PM CT
(AP) - Although most Americans are focused on the presidential campaign, voters in 11 states are also choosing governors this fall in races that offer an important prelude to 2010, when most of the nation's governors' offices are up for grabs. | | |
Wash. primary results show tight race for governor
Aug 26 2008 3:30AM CT
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Democrat Chris Gregoire beat Republican Dino Rossi in Washington state's governor's race by a mere 133 votes four years ago. The sequel looks like it might be just as tight. | | |
Ohio gov. gives away Spitzer cash
Mar 19 2008 3:11PM CT
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland is giving a food bank $10,000 in campaign cash he got from former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. | | |
Analysis: Paterson's style wins friends
Mar 16 2008 2:03PM CT
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - In one historic hour Monday, Gov. Eliot Spitzer's once-unlimited political career will dissolve into disgrace, undone by hypocrisy, and Lt. Gov. David Paterson will be sworn in as New York's first black governor. | | |
 N.C. governor's race likely a referendum
Dec 26 2007 8:38AM CT
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - For the first time since 1992, when he won his first term as state attorney general, a presidential election year will pass in 2008 without Gov. Mike Easley running for statewide office. | | |
Manchin to lead Democratic governors
Dec 5 2007 4:41PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - Gov. Joe Manchin of West Virginia said Wednesday he hopes to increase the number of Democratic governors in the country from 28 to more than 30 when he takes over as chair of the Democratic Governors Association next year. | | |
 New Ky. governor makes unlikely comeback
Nov 7 2007 1:56AM CT
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Believing his political career was over long ago, Steve Beshear spent much of last year urging other prominent Democrats to run for governor. When they declined, he decided to run himself. | | |
 Indian immigrants' son new La. governor
Oct 21 2007 9:14AM CT
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal easily defeated 11 opponents and became the state's first nonwhite governor since Reconstruction, decades after his parents moved to the state from India to pursue the American dream. | | |
La. gov candidate switches to Democrat
Apr 26 2007 5:58PM CT
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A Republican gubernatorial candidate switched parties Thursday, adding a Democrat to race that some of the party's biggest names have decided to skip. | | |
Breaux bows out of governor's race
Apr 13 2007 6:08PM CT
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Former U.S. Sen. John Breaux on Friday bowed out of the Louisiana governor's race, saying the uncertainness regarding his citizenship would inhibit his ability to conduct an issue-based campaign. | | |
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