Doesn't Vermont have a history of electing much more progressive Reps, local officials, and Senators, and sticking with fairly moderate GOPs in the statehouse? Something similar happens here in Massachusetts but I think from different causes since it is not a needed majority of the vote to elect. If that were the case here and it went to the always Democratic and fairly ruthless state legislature, well so much for any kind of democratic election process. And what is with this perennial third party nonsense?
I lived in Vermont for a while and bless the state for Bernie Sanders (from my home town of Brooklyn I think) and Pat Leahy, and James Jefford's party switch, but how state politics worked was always beyond me.
Not really. Phil Hoff was elected Governor in 1962, the first democrat since the civil war. He was followed by Deane Davis, a conservative Republican, who was followed by a right of center Democrat, Tom Salmon.
Vermont has had four governors over the last 30 years, two centrist Democrats in Madeleine Kunin and Howard Dean, one moderate Republican in Dick Snelling, and the current Jim Douglas.
Was remembering Snelling mostly, who was governor when I lived in the state, I guess, and the current governor.
