Talk:2020 United States gubernatorial elections/Archive 1

Archive 1

Map

Map needs updating as New Hampshire & Vermont both went Republican, in 2018. GoodDay (talk) 03:59, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Note: Map is missing the territories, two of which are up for election in 2020. GoodDay (talk) 14:54, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Leader photos

Previous discussion at Talk:2018_United_States_gubernatorial_elections#Leader_photos, perhaps Woko Sapien, GoldRingChip, or Hobbamock would like to chime in following my edit and revert by Thesavagenorwegian. I don't see the purpose of including these names and images. In a legislative election, although voters may not be directly voting for their party's leaders, they are still deciding which of them may gain power as a leader commanding a majority. This is not the case for the governor elections, which are entirely independent of each other. The chairs of the RGA and DGA may fundraise and support gubernatorial candidates, but the actual results are irrelevant to their positions (i.e. holding the most governorships is completely arbitrary to governance), and they are unknown to voters. They should be removed from every year (currently included from 2001 onward). Reywas92^Talk 09:06, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

• I agree with User:Reywas92. They are not leaders of the Governors' caucuses, but rather of lobbying organizations, and have no official role. Omit them as leaders entirely. —GoldRingChip 12:50, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

• Reywas92, I think your point is lucid, and I have no problem with removing the RGA and DGA governors from the infoboxes. As I said before, my main concern is that a formal consensus be reached and that it be applied to all US gubernatorial election articles. While we're at it, it may be worth debating whether or not to use party logos (GOP here and Dems here) in the infoboxes so as to maintain some visual representation of the two parties. --Woko Sapien (talk) 16:00, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
  • Yes, that would be quite reasonable to show the logos. Reywas92^Talk 17:57, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
    • See my sandbox for an idea of what this would've looked like on the 2019 article. --21:18, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

I'm of two minds about this myself. I think before we change it we should figure out what to put in its place. Also, these pages are the only place the portraits are found. You don't see them in 2020 United States elections or the individual gubernatorial race pages. It could be argued that a person visiting the page specific to a top-level summary of all gubernatorial races would be interested to know who leads the respective governor's associations that year. TheSavageNorwegian 18:00, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

• I think a line in the lead saying "Governor Greg Abbott of Texas and Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey lead the Republican Governors Association and Democratic Governors Association, respectively, in support of their parties' candidates." could be a good way to put it. Woko's sandbox with logos also looks nice. Reywas92^Talk 00:51, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
• I think both approaches are valid. Like I said, I think a formal consensus should be reached before we do anything. --Woko Sapien (talk) 21:44, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
• I contend that it is appropriate to show the leader of the respective RGA and DGA in representing the overall gubernatorial elections. They are not lobbyist groups but rather they are Political Action Committees charged with gaining a nationwide majority of governors for their respective parties. In the last election, the DGA raised $100M for their candidates(https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/15/democratic-governors-association-raises-million-ahead-midterms/) while the RGA raised $63.2M. True that every candidate is legally independent of the others, but there is an overall campaign coordination and synchronization. Hobbamock (talk) 12:37, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
  • "gaining a nationwide majority of governors" This is false. Their objective is simply to win elections; a majority is arbitrary and meaningless. The chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and National Republican Congressional Committee raise even more for their candidates and are more day-to-day involved in the elections but we put the caucus leaders in the infobox because they are the public-facing people dependent on the results. The equivalent does not exist for governors. Reywas92^Talk 21:13, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

Election summary section

It would be better without the candidates' names in different colours; parties can be indicated by names, abbreviations or colours alongside the names. Some of the text and background combinations used here don't meet the contrast requirements of Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Color. Peter James (talk) 22:04, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Will someone pls rvw edits of this blocked sockpuppet

See all edit of Smith0124 and 108.14.43.250 on 2020 United States gubernatorial elections? This editor also edited many other gubernatorial pages — see in list here. Humanengr (talk) 20:54, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

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This page currently displays pictures of the Texas and NJ governors...

... on the upper right sidebar(if that's what you call it). I'll just point it out for whoever wishes to sort it out.2600:6C56:6600:1ECF:39A6:C54A:D1C2:38BD (talk) 14:51, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

This is because they are the heads of the Republican and Democratic Governors' Associations respectively ... nothing to sort out ... Carter (talk) 18:50, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

I find this unnecessary. Each governor campaigns and governs independently of others. I think these pictures should be removed.—Naddruf (talk ~ contribs) 23:31, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

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