Here's why the other 48 states care who's governor of Virginia and New Jersey
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Here's why the other 48 states care who's governor of Virginia and New Jersey

NPR  

Here's why the other 48 states care who's governor of Virginia and New Jersey Enlarge this image toggle caption Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images On Tuesday, Virginia and New Jersey will have their Election Day and count votes that have already been coming in for governor and other state offices. Eight years earlier, one year after the election of President Barack Obama, Virginia and New Jersey chose Republican governors. Sponsor Message Also in the Clinton years, New Jersey voted for the Democrat for president but promptly replaced its Democratic governor in 1993 with Republican Christine Todd Whitman, who also won herself a second term one year after Clinton won his. Sponsor Message Truth be told, the pendulum that has swung away from the president's party in the Virginia and New Jersey statewide races in years past has often swung back again by the next presidential round.

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