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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

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Parties Mean Little In Governor’s Races

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BY FROMA HARROP Professional partisans see every race as a mark on their team’s scoreboard. But these activists err in treating the win of a state governorship and U.S. Senate seat as similar victories. Voters might care which party runs Congress, but why would they fret over whether their state’s chief executive is a Republican, Democrat or something else? Truth is, most don’t. Yet GOP cheerleaders saw the 2009 elections of Republican governors in “blue” […]

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Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton became editor of The Observer in September 2006. Previously, he served nearly two decades as the Dallas Morning News’ Oklahoma Bureau chief. He also covered government and politics for the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Times Herald, the Tulsa Tribune and the Oklahoma Journal.