New York and Massachusetts, states which voted over 60% for Gore, have Republican governors. Mississippi elected a Democratic governor in '99, then went on to vote 58% for Gore. (All according to the main site, of course.) What's going on here?
Local politics.
In conservative areas Democrats run to the right of the presidential nominee (and Republicans in liberal areas run to the left of the nominee), so "wrong-party governors" and congresspeople can easily happen.
But many "wrong-party" politicians are not moderates. They include...
Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)
Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL)
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Rep. Jim Nussle (R-IA)
Rep. Dennis Moore (D-KS)
Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR)
Rep. Pat Toomey (R-PA)
Rep. Jim Matheson (D-UT)
Does anybody know of any others like these....
