we're talking strictly governors right now, right?

Pennsylvania would be a good pickup. Lots of competitive races there.

Colorado will probably be close.

yeah, I think we've kinda been putting off the gubernatorial issue because of the US congress

don't underestimate gubernatorial races,

they usually determine how districts are gerrymandered

we definitely need to have at least a list

Seems like we have New Hampshire, Maryland, and Massachusetts in the bag.

nothing's in the bag

ever

we've always got fight tooth and nail on everything if we want to keep what we have

I don't think you understand the potential of Connecticut,

I saw the map you posted

If everything that can flip flips, we can get 40 governer's mansions.

just 1 one more R state senator,

and 7 more R state reps,

and a R governor can redraw the map so an R can win a seat in the US House of Reps

that's of importance, definitely

it'd be great to have a US rep from that state

Connecticut is prime property for expansion.

It's majority white and has quite a lot of working class people.

I think that areas like Connecticut, Delaware, NH, Maine could in a decade or 2 become red states

NH and Maine are swing states already.

it's an ongoing trend, they're the canaries in the coal mine

I think that we'll have the GOP eventually become a big tent party like the dems used to be before the 2000s

The Republicans have taken Dixie from the dems, are taking the rust belt from the dems, and could take the northeast from them eventually.

http://www.270towin.com/maps/Onv6B

These are the battle lines for politics in the future, the sun belt may go to the dems eventually.

It depends on our immigration policy.

yeah, we want to have hegemony over there for as long as possible

and I think it's possible to keep it on our side permanently if we make sure to pass the right stuff

If we stopped immigration from Mexico, the south will be red for quite a few decades.

Dixie will be red for the rest of our lives

The sun belt are where the demographic battle lines are

I thought the Sun Belt was this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Sun_belt.svg/1200px-Sun_belt.svg.png

But yeah, I could see Arizona and Texas becoming much more blue if we don't build a wall.

Eh, to me it ends at the eastern border of Texas

then the bible belt starts and so on

http://www.270towin.com/2018-governor-election/xMV7

Best case scenario for Republicans in the Governer's elections.

Getting back to senatorial runs, apparently the Governor of Maine has flirted with a run multiple times