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Question: Who's the most deeply despised former US State Governors over the years ?
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Former LA Governor Buddy Roemer (D/R)		  
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Former CA Governor Pete Wilson (R)		  
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Former IL Governor Rod Blagojevich (D)		  
#4
Former MI Governor Rick Snyder (R)		  
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Former VA Governor George F. Allen (R)		  
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Former NC Governor Patrick McCrory (R)		  
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Former FL Governor Bob Martinez (R)		  
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Former LA Governor Bobby Jindal (R)		  
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Former NY St Governor Eliot Spitzer (D)		  
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Former MN Governor Tim Pawlenty (R)		  
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Former AK Governor Sarah Palin (R)		  
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Former NV Governor Jim Gibbons (R)		  
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Former OH Governor Bob Taft (R)		  
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Former WI Governor Scott Walker (R)		  
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Former MI Governor Jennifer Granholm (D)		  
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Former MO Governor Eric Grietens (R)		  
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Former AR Governor Jim Guy Tucker (D)		  
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Former OK Governor Mary Fallin (R)		  
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Former IL Governor Patrick Quinn (D)		  
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Former KS Governor Sam Brownback (R)		  
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Former MO Governor Matt Blunt (R)		  
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Former KY Governor Ernest Fletcher (R)		  
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Former AK Governor Frank Murkowski (R)		  
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Former CA Governor Gray Davis (D)		  
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Former ME Governor Paul LePage (R)		  
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Former PA Governor Tom Corbett (R)		  
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Former CT Governor Dannell Malloy (D)		  
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Former IL Governor Bruce Rauner (R)		  
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Former NJ Governor Chris Christie (R)		  
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« Reply #25 on: June 12, 2019, 08:59:51 PM »
They still justify Snyder's actions ?
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« Reply #26 on: June 12, 2019, 09:11:31 PM »

Is that even fair? He wasn't a governor then.
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« Reply #27 on: June 12, 2019, 10:27:54 PM »

Yeah he shouldn't be on this list. He lost by basically the same margin as Romney in 2012. Just a tad bit worse. Nothing thats would be a despised governor.
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« Reply #28 on: June 12, 2019, 11:39:38 PM »
George Allen was so unpopular as a Governor that he unseated an incumbent Democratic Senator in the state he was Governor of
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« Reply #29 on: June 13, 2019, 05:01:01 AM »
Allen was deeply despised by African Americans & other minorities for his policies such as Confederate History Month, removing minority appointees of Wilder, etc.,
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« Reply #30 on: June 13, 2019, 07:26:07 AM »
Rod Blagojevich, obviously
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« Reply #31 on: June 14, 2019, 10:42:32 PM »
LePage should be one of the most despised former governors but sadly I have a feeling he is not...
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« Reply #32 on: June 15, 2019, 01:22:18 AM »
Quote from: matnnar on June 14, 2019, 10:42:32 PM
LePage should be one of the most despised former governors but sadly I have a feeling he is not...

As someone who frequents ME-2, he definitely still has a good-sized base there, far bigger than whatever Moody has/had.
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« Reply #33 on: June 15, 2019, 10:08:56 AM »
Taft or Blago 100%
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« Reply #34 on: June 15, 2019, 01:18:21 PM »
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« Reply #35 on: June 16, 2019, 12:08:45 PM »
Since Blagojevich is leading, who would win a hypothetical state-wide race in Illinois between Blago and Alan Keyes?
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« Reply #36 on: June 16, 2019, 12:21:05 PM »
Quote from: matnnar on June 16, 2019, 12:08:45 PM
Since Blagojevich is leading, who would win a hypothetical state-wide race in Illinois between Blago and Alan Keyes?

Blago 66-32
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« Reply #37 on: June 16, 2019, 12:30:13 PM »
Not sure who voted for Bob Taft, he's been completely rehabilitated.
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« Reply #38 on: June 16, 2019, 12:53:40 PM »
Voted LePage since he's basically Trump in the Flesh. Calling someone a c*cks*cker while in office and then writing STOLEN ELECTION on Gorgeous Jared Golden's certificate of election was just beyond deplorable and very unbecoming for a Governor.

Blagojevich is obviously the worst Democratic Governor. Poor Illinois, red or blue it doesn't matter in the end they always get screwed.
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« Reply #39 on: June 16, 2019, 12:54:01 PM »
For me, George McClellan.
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« Reply #40 on: June 18, 2019, 10:26:29 AM »
Quote from: Old School Republican on June 12, 2019, 11:39:38 PM
George Allen was so unpopular as a Governor that he unseated an incumbent Democratic Senator in the state he was Governor of

And then lost the two subsequent elections
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« Reply #41 on: June 22, 2019, 07:26:56 PM »
I just had to vote Christie, even though LePage, Brownback and Bob Taft are all strong contenders for this title
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« Reply #42 on: June 22, 2019, 07:43:48 PM »
The pipes, the pipes are calling! From glen to glen and down the mountainside. The summers gone and all the leaves are falling. It’s you it’s you who must go and I must bide. But come ye back when summers in the meadow! Or when the valleys white and washed with snow! Yes I’ll be here in sunshine or in shadow, oh Ned Lamont oh Ned Lamont we love you so!
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« Reply #43 on: June 22, 2019, 07:45:27 PM »
I voted Brownback though. I know several people - a few of whom voted for Trump - who think Blago was railroaded for going against Bank of America. Everyone knows he’s guilty as hell of course, they just thought he was selectively punished.
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« Reply #44 on: June 22, 2019, 07:53:22 PM »
Sarah Palin.
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« Reply #45 on: June 22, 2019, 09:34:22 PM »
« Edited: June 22, 2019, 09:48:40 PM by Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee »
Quote from: Glowfish on June 18, 2019, 10:26:29 AM
Quote from: Old School Republican on June 12, 2019, 11:39:38 PM
George Allen was so unpopular as a Governor that he unseated an incumbent Democratic Senator in the state he was Governor of

And then lost the two subsequent elections

And then the thread title should be changed since it is despised Governors and not politicians generally. Allen was popular as Governor and a majority liked him for many years after he was Governor. It was his actions as Senator and the shift in the state demographics that changed that.

Even when you consider the fact that his policies alienated a chunk of the electorate, that doesn't put him on the level of "Most deeply despised 'Governor" when you have Governors who went to prison, Governors who had approval ratings in the teens who are not on this list.


Edit: Just for the record I cannot stand George Allen or his confederate fanboyism and this dates back all the way to when he was supposed to be the Conservative champion in the 2008 Primaries, so about 2005.
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« Reply #46 on: June 23, 2019, 09:57:51 PM »
Quote from: Roll Roons on June 11, 2019, 04:52:55 PM
Blago's gotta be up there because of how egregious his corruption was. Probably also Greitens, but his term was so short that it barely counts. 

Illinois is so accustomed to corrupt governors going to jail that I think they just shrug and have an eye-rolling "Oh, you!" attitude about Blago.
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« Reply #47 on: June 23, 2019, 10:46:26 PM »

Quote from: Indy Texas on June 23, 2019, 09:57:51 PM
Quote from: Roll Roons on June 11, 2019, 04:52:55 PM
Blago's gotta be up there because of how egregious his corruption was. Probably also Greitens, but his term was so short that it barely counts.  

Illinois is so accustomed to corrupt governors going to jail that I think they just shrug and have an eye-rolling "Oh, you!" attitude about Blago.

(Sorry, Jimmy7812, but I could not figure out how to put the TM in superscript in your name.)
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« Reply #48 on: June 23, 2019, 10:51:38 PM »
Post-Hurricane Irma approval aside, Rick Scott's exclusion from this list is blatantly sad.
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« Reply #49 on: June 24, 2019, 07:11:58 PM »
Democrat: Blagojevich

Republican: Christie

Interestingly, both are Trump pals.
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