"I think he has experience as a governor, experience in business, and I think he has the ability to replace the existing president," Mr. Turley said.
The vast majority of respondents to a survey agreed that their school governor experience had exposed them to new skills and knowledge.
The president-elect said that his nominee would be dealing with the economy, the most significant issue facing the new administration, and added that "his mixture of diplomatic experience, hands-on experience as governor, experience in the cabinet, experience in Congress, means that he is going to be a key strategist on all the issues that we work on".
"I've been covering Indiana politics for three decades, and I don't recall a sitting governor experiencing that kind of decline over this short period of time like we've seen here," HPI publisher Brian Howey said last year.
Locke, a sitting Governor, experienced racial insults, death threats, and threats to his children after he provided the Democratic response to George Bush's 2003 State of the Union speech.
"I've been covering Indiana politics for three decades, and I don't recall a sitting governor experiencing that kind of decline over this short period of time like we've seen here," said Brian Howey, publisher of the widely respected site Howey Politics Indiana.
Here, although governors' executive experience might otherwise be an asset, they will not usually have acquired foreign policy or national security experience, whereas senators can serve on foreign policy committees and must make votes and take positions on world affairs.
A classic Governors Ball experience isn't fully complete without spending some of your hard-earned cash on high-priced grub.
And like Mr. Cuomo, he said that governors whose experience he had studied most carefully were Hugh L. Carey, a Democrat who guided New York out of the 1970s fiscal crisis, and George E. Pataki, a Republican who pushed through a major cut in the state income tax during his first year in office.
Mr. Giuliani and his police commissioner's remarks were echoed later by governors with experience in handling incidents involving public fears, including Frank Keating of Oklahoma, who faced the 1995 bombing of the federal office building in Oklahoma City, and Jeb Bush of Florida, whose state was the first to be hit in the current anthrax scare.
