If only one wins, senators will pick a new lieutenant governor either way.
NBC's Brian Williams began a question to Rick Perry, the Texas governor, this way: "Your state has executed two hundred and thirty-four death-row inmates, more than any other governor in modern times".
A prominent Democratic lawmaker described their approach to the governor this way: "We're cutting ourselves and bleeding all over him".
But on the most culturally resonant measure, Springsteen fandom, Mr. Christie, the Republican candidate for governor, is way off the charts.
Mr Brown, long a foe of the Clintons, explained his record of not raising taxes in a previous stint as governor by way of an oblique reference to the Monica Lewinsky affair: "I did not have taxes with this state".
He has kept himself out of the governor's way, moving in parallel on almost all policy issues and avoiding situations that might make the two men appear to be rivals.
Meanwhile, helping to prolong the Democratic battle over delegates — instead of advocating that they simply not be counted, as the current rules require — could be the governor's way of making trouble for the Democrats on behalf of Mr. McCain.
As Mr. Corzine got his campaign for governor under way, word leaked out about the $470,000 loan he had given, and forgiven, to help her buy a house in Hunterdon County.
While the proposal was cautiously welcomed by some Board of Education members, officials of the construction authority, members of the Assembly and the governor, the way in which it was delivered raised questions for many.
In Vermont, an unpopular outgoing governor gave way to two political veterans whose race will be decided by independent voters.
But in the race for congressional endorsements, the former Massachusetts governor is way ahead of the ex-Speaker of the House.
