Cook Political Report Designates VT Gov Race a “Toss Up”

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To give a sense of how the greater political world is viewing Jim Douglas’s retirement, Cook’s Political Report just upgraded Vermont’s gubernatorial race from “Likely Republican” to “Toss-Up” status yesterday.

The Democratic Governor’s Association confirmed last week that they will place Vermont among their top-tier targets, along with states like Florida, Hawaii, Minnesota and California (and possibly Rhode Island, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona).

4 thoughts on “Cook Political Report Designates VT Gov Race a “Toss Up””

  1. The Addison County Eagle, started because its founders thought the Addison County  Independent (publisher/editor Angelo Lynn, brother of St. Albans Messenger publisher Emerson Lynn) wasn’t conservative enough, posted the following as the lead to an unsigned news story this week:

    Smacking its lips like a lion hovering over a pinned wildebeest on the Serengeti, the Democratic Governors Association is moving Vermont into its top tier of targeted 2010 liberal pickup races, as Gov. Jim Douglas, a long-time moderate Republican of Middlebury, announced his retirement last week.

    Uh-hunh.

    NanuqFC

    The time is always right to do the right thing.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

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