Gubernatorial elections this year, by and large, have been local.
No doubt a reaction to 2010, in which every race was ridiculously nationalized, right down to county tax assessor. You had a crop of new Republican governors come in. Some of them governed within the political realities of their state and avoided ideological parroting (Brian Sandoval, John Kasich, Bill Haslam). Others thought they could simply read from ALEC's script in Ronald Reagan's voice and failed miserably at it (Sam Brownback, Paul LePage, Tom Corbett).
