Talk:2008 United States gubernatorial elections

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I'm not sure how to do it, but in the image, West Virginia needs to be colored blue. ProfessorPlum27 21:15, 13 December 2006 (UTC)ProfessorPlum27

Also, North Dakota does not have term-limits. Politics rule 11:25, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Should the Louisian's gubernatorial race really be on the chart in this article? That race is in 2007, not 2008. ~~goodleh 00:23, 26 September 2007

Illinois

Why is Illinois on there? I thought governors ran for four years, with Blagojevich being re-elected last year. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.47.225.104 (talk) 05:32, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Utah

Added information and notation on Utah Gov race. 155.70.23.45 (talk) 17:14, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Gubernatorial

Surely there should be an explanation of what "gubernatorial" is. Although the word comes from Latin it is only used in the USA and many English speakers from other countries have no idea what it means. I had suspected that it was related to Governor elections but only knew for sure thanks to Wiktionary. --217.203.133.242 (talk) 00:05, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

No offense, but the word is heard enough times, especially during elections, that it's fairly commonplace. Gubernatorial is the adjective form of governor. The word is used much like presidential, as in presidential elections. It is true that adjectives like mayoral, senatorial, presidential, and gubernatorial aren't used all that much outside of elections, but they are simply adjectives that derive from the nouns mayor, senate, president, and governor. I will admit that gubernatorial is one that probably makes more sense in its Latin origin than it does in English. I am guessing the word governor might be an older latin word, and those can often be a little more peculiar to modern day Latin based languages which makes them even more peculiar in a language like ours that is the bastard step child of Latin and old Germanic languages. But I am only guessing as to why gubernatorial is a little less obvious as an adjective form. I'm not a linguist or anything. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jdlund (talk • contribs) 17:23, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Biden's replacement

I might be wrong on this one, but if Obama were to be elected, I believe that the current governor of Delaware Ruth Ann Miner would actually be the one to pick Biden's replacement. I'm just trying to figure out the timeline, and if I'm thinking about this correctly she would be choosing his replacement before any new governor would be sworn in. I'm assuming that Biden wouldn't wait until January 4th to resign his seat in the senate and that whenever he resigned his seat the governor at that time would choose a replacement. I guess I fail to see why it would fall on the new governor necessarily. Are there any credible sources that say it's definitely the new governor would be the one to fill that vacancy? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jdlund (talk • contribs) 14:14, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Total Results

I think we should clear this whole section. First of all, it's totally unsourced. Moreover, it probably can never be properly sourced, because there's no body that counts all the popular votes for all of these totally separate elections in different jurisdictions. At best, it will be an irrelevant, synthesis of way too many sources. Lastly, I don't think it's even accurate. It lists the "Samoa Reunification Party," but I've never seen any evidence outside of Wikipedia that such an organization has ever existed. -LtNOWIS (talk) 09:01, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

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