Governors should face re-election in 2020

Tomas McIntee
Sep 6, 2018 · 5 min read

Right now, in most of the United States, gubernatorial elections aren’t at the same time as presidential elections. Most are in midterm election years; for example, as I write this article in 2018, there are thirty-six gubernatorial elections underway. In 2016, the last presidential election cycle, there were only eleven gubernatorial elections.

A map of the current gubernatorial election schedules as of 2018. The two governors on biennial election schedules (every two years) have to face presidential election turnout; governors

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Dr. Tomas McIntee is a mathematician and occasional social scientist with stray degrees in physics and philosophy.

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