Hello from the Other Side, I'll Compromise a Thousand Times: How Minority Party Governors Win Unlikely Elections

• In Event: When Governors Succeed An Examinations of Elections and Public Policy in the American States

Brief Overview

Minority party governors who are out of step with their state's partisanship employ a unique communication strategy that distances themselves from their national party and emphasizes non-ideological valence issues.

Author

• Megan Goldberg, Cornell College