The first face-to-face meeting between the two men in the election was ... contests. Washington’s last Republican governor was John Spellman. He was elected in 1980 but lost reelection.

Washington is considered a reliably blue state, and it last voted for a Republican governor in 1980. Still ... The nonpartisan election handicapper Cook Political Report rates the seat as ...

The first face-to-face meeting between the two men in the election was ... contests. Washington’s last Republican governor was John Spellman. He was elected in 1980 but lost reelection.

2004 Washington gubernatorial election Washington has not elected a Republican governor since 1980, but it nearly did so in ...

Clear differences in style and substance emerged in the first face-to-face encounter between the candidates battling to be ...

MS. TUMULTY: Hello, and welcome to Washington Post Live. I’m Karen Tumulty, a columnist and associate editor here at The Post, and it’s my great honor today to welcome my colleague, Max Boot, to talk ...

It’s a truism of North Carolina’s politics that every four years, the Republican presidential nominee wins the state's electoral votes while a Democrat takes the governorship.

Our author visits the political pros in four battleground states and is reminded that the swing vote in the November election is not conservati ...

A Republican who wants smaller government will face off with a Democratic incumbent this November in the race for ...