2018 Governors- the Democrats silver lining?

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The problem with Murphy and Graham is I think Murphy's being recruited in a bigger sense to run against Rubio for Senate in 2016 while Graham national Dems need in that House seat too make sure it doesn't go anywhere. DWS is considered a Democratic hack and unfortunately wouldn't be able to get elected statewide in FL, Sink is a perennial loser, Crist is a perennial loser, and yeah. Maybe Castor could run for FL-Gov in 2018, but as it stands, the FL-GOP has a stronger standing bench.

Same goes for Ohio admittedly, but I think we have a notably strong rising Democratic bench. The problem is, a lot of rising stars in the ODP like P.G. Sittenfeld, Nan Whaley and Kathleen Clyde aren't experienced enough to be running for Governor in 2018, and we would need someone like Richard Cordray (most preferably), or maybe Tim Ryan to get the ball rolling again. On the GOP side of things, aside from Jon Husted who's likely to be the GOP nominee for Governor in 2018, there's other choices in Lt. Governor Mary Taylor, Attorney General Mike DeWine, incoming Speaker Cliff Rosenberger, very well-liked, moderate two-term State Senator Frank LaRose, and a big list of others.

Most Governorships we probably can win back in 2018, and man do we need them if Democrats have any hope of doing well statewide again going into the next decade. Undoubtedly, with Kasich, Scott, Snyder, Brownback etc. with comfortable legislatures on their side and none of them worrying about running for re-election ever again, they can pass what they couldn't in their first term that would have otherwise gotten a lot of uproar from the voters at the polls. Kasich, Scott and others don't have to worry about that now.

Plus after two terms of Governors, voters grow tired of that party being in the Governor's Mansion in some states. The re-elections of all of these anti-labor, anti-poor, anti-gay governors last night hurt in the short term, but in the long term, this could help us win big in the Governor's Mansions if Dems get the right candidates in these open seats.