One irony of the State Legislative Supremacy fad is that the further voters go down the ballot, the less they pay attention. Everybody has a take on the president, most people know who their governor or mayor is. But your state representative?
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1380149155398610946
In theory, the guy/gal who gets elected with 10,000 votes and maybe goes door to door in October is someone you know. But ask most people who represents them in the state senate and unless the member has been involved in some scandal or big news story you often get crickets.
I live in DC now but I noticed this where my folks live in Delaware - there was a local GOP rep who kept winning in a Dem district and once the Dems spent a little money to say "hey this person is a Republican" the incumbent lost
Anyway, the more important difference is that a governor or Secretary of State can't re-shape state boundaries to shore up his vote, but legislators can draw themselves into maps that make it incredibly hard to dislodge them.
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