That is the last year that any Democrat won a state-wide office in Texas.
I have a six-inch-wide office window with a view of one side of the School of Social Work.
After all, said the NRSC, Alex Sink was a star fund-raiser who had run for state-wide office, narrowly failing to win the 2010 governor's race.
On the other, the more liberal Democrats, strong contenders for state-wide office, often have their base in the suburbs think of Michael Dukakis, the favourite son of leafy Brookline.
The lesson from California is that state-wide office holders - not just governors but also the unglamourous, but important, secretaries of state in each state - can have a disproportionate impact on the outcome of federal elections.
But Mr. Thompson is the only black running for city-wide office, and he was clearly helped by the high turnout of black and Latino voters who rallied around the mayoral bid of Fernando Ferrer, the Bronx borough president.
This year he is in a dead heat with his Democratic challenger, who has the support of more than 100 Republicans, most of them former or current state-wide office holders.
Christie's story, I mean, beyond cap and trade, conservatives love this guy so much, and are hyping up as a future Presidential candidate, that he's just basically given up on his political future in New Jersey, and is doing all sorts of things that show that he's not really interested in long-term state-wide office in New Jersey.
* At age 36 he was elected governor of Louisiana in 2007, becoming the youngest US governor, the first Indian American elected to state-wide office in US history and the first non-European to be elected in the south since a black man, Pinckney Pinchback, served for 35 days in the 1870s in Louisiana.
When he is panicked you cannot let on to even his wider office or despondency will rapidly spread.
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