031 - Upbeat candidates face 4-way dead heat for top office
By Bill Sniffin
So, voters, what shall it be?
A new young governor and for the first time in a long, long while, we will have school-age kids in the governor’s mansion?
How about a woman governor? Seems to work well all over the country. Heck, Wyoming tried it first with Nellie Tayloe Ross. But that was back in the distant past.
Or should we turn over the executive branch to the older, more seasoned Ag leader who likes things the way they used to be – sure sounds good, doesn’t it? Especially to tea partiers, who have more clout today than ever.
Besides the formal political positions that have been taken ...
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030 - Will governor candidates go negative with their campaigns?
By Bill Sniffin
Up to now, most of the candidates for governor have avoided what is called “going negative” during the 2010 political campaign.
This is commendable but it might just mean that a candidate that could have won will not win because of two much niceness.
Probably the best examples of recent statewide campaigns that succeeded that did not go negative were the two recent victories by Gov. Dave Freudenthal in 2002 and 2006.
In both cases, his campaign crew resisted the urge to go negative and pulled off an upset in 2002 and a landslide in 2006.
In a situation like his, I would contend he did not have to go ...
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