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5. Resources?

Tue Mar 25, 2025, 11:27 AM

Mar 2025

It is hard to run without one of the two "working" parties representing you. Maine Senate, yeah. Vermont Senate? yeah. But elsewhere statewide offices are rarely held by independents. Only five governorships this century per Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_third-party_and_independent_United_States_state_governors

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