In Washington, the focus right now is on the Senate: Who will control it after the November midterm elections? But the National Governors Association winter meeting this weekend is a reminder that the outcome of this year’s gubernatorial elections will be equally important in shaping the political future.
Washington remains gridlocked by divided government. President Obama, Democrats and Republicans have all but given up on anything more than modest cooperation on legislative issues and are now shaping their strategies to the midterm elections. That means the states continue to loom larger on the policy front — and rarely have the states charted such ideologically divergent paths on policies. CONT.
Dan Balz, Washington Post