Dan Balz’s article in yesterday’s Washington Post headlines that “Democratic Governors See McCain as Formidable.” Damn right they do.
Reading the article, it was difficult to tell to what extent each interviewee was trying to ensure that the Democratic nominee would pick them, and to what extent they seriously considered their state in doubt.
Governor Edward Rendell said that Mr. McCain was “the ideal [Republican] candidate for Pennsylvania.” Mr. Rendell went on to describe a scenario that suggested Mr. McCain was the seemingly inevitable candidate for Pennsylvania.
Governor Jennifer Granholm said that Mr. McCain was “appealing in Michigan. He does appeal to independent thinkers – at least he did in the past – and we have a lot of those in Michigan. Whoever the Democrat is, Michigan is a state where we’re going to have to work.”
Governor Ted Strickland explained that, “I think John McCain could have an appeal to a lot of Ohioans.” Perhaps Mr. Strickland didn’t need to get all dramatic about his state because it decided the last Democratic election.
And those are just the Governor who support Ms. Clinton. Mr. Obama’s supporters at the governor’s meeting seemed to focus less on the likelihood that their specific states would go to Mr. McCain.
Just something interesting to note…