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2018 Vermont gubernatorial election, the Glossary

The 2018 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the Governor of Vermont, concurrently with the election of Vermont's Class I U.S. Senate seat, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.^[1]

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2018 United States gubernatorial elections
2018 Vermont elections

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (born October 13, 1989), also known by her initials AOC, is an American left-wing politician and activist.

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Amy Walter

Amy Elizabeth Walter (born October 19, 1969), NNDB is an American political analyst who is the publisher and editor-in-chief of The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter.

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Anne Donahue

Anne de la Blanchetai Donahue is an American politician from the state of Vermont.

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Ballotpedia

Ballotpedia is a nonprofit and nonpartisan online political encyclopedia that covers federal, state, and local politics, elections, and public policy in the United States.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

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Ben Cohen (businessman)

Bennett Cohen (born March 18, 1951) is an American businessman, activist and philanthropist.

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Bernie Sanders

Bernard Sanders (born September8, 1941) is an American politician and activist who is the senior United States senator from Vermont.

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Brattleboro, Vermont

Brattleboro, originally Brattleborough, is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States, located about north of the Massachusetts state line at the confluence of Vermont's West River and Connecticut.

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Brian Dubie

Brian E. Dubie (born 9 March 1959) is an American politician who was the 80th lieutenant governor of Vermont from 2003 to 2011.

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Brian K. Savage

Brian K. Savage (born April 12, 1955) is a Republican member of the Vermont House of Representatives.

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Burlington, Vermont

Burlington is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the seat of Chittenden County.

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Carolyn Whitney Branagan

Carolyn Whitney Branagan (born June 5, 1954) is an American Republican politician who was elected and served in the Vermont House of Representatives and Vermont Senate.

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Chittenden County, Vermont

Chittenden County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Vermont.

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Christine Hallquist

Christine Hallquist (born April 11, 1956) is an American politician and former CEO of Vermont Electric Cooperative (VEC).

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Claire D. Ayer

Claire D. Ayer (born September 21, 1948) is a Democratic former member of the Vermont State Senate, representing the two-member at-large Addison Senate District.

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Classes of United States senators

The 100 seats in the United States Senate are divided into 3 classes to determine which seats will be up for election in any 2-year cycle, with only 1 class being up for election at a time.

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Corey Parent

Corey Parent (born July 8, 1990) is a member of the Vermont Senate.

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Cory Booker

Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969) is an American politician who has served as the junior United States senator from New Jersey since 2013.

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Cris Ericson

Cris Ericson (born May 16, 1952) is an American marijuana legalization activist and perennial candidate for public office in Vermont.

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Daily Kos

Daily Kos is a group blog and internet forum focused on the U.S. Democratic Party and progressive liberal American politics.

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David M. Ainsworth

David M. Ainsworth (July 8, 1954 – May 31, 2019) was an American politician and a Republican member of the Vermont House of Representatives representing Windsor-Orange-1 District.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Dennis Devereux

Dennis J. Devereux (born March 10, 1951) is an American politician who served as a member of the Vermont House of Representatives for the Windsor-Rutland-1 representative district from 2007 to 2019.

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Donald H. Turner

Donald H. "Don" Turner Jr. (born July 19, 1964) is an American Republican politician who served in the Vermont House of Representatives, to which he was first elected in 2006.

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Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Ann Warren (née Herring; born June 22, 1949) is an American politician and former law professor who is the senior United States senator from Massachusetts, serving since 2013.

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Essex County, Vermont

Essex County is a county located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Vermont.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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FiveThirtyEight

538, originally rendered as FiveThirtyEight, is an American website that focused on opinion poll analysis, politics, economics, and sports blogging in the United States.

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Fox News

The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City.

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Fred Baser

Fred K. Baser (born November 4, 1947) is an American Republican politician.

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Governing (magazine)

Governing is a website, edited and published in Washington, D.C., that covers state and local government in the United States.

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Governor of Vermont

The governor of Vermont is the head of government of the U.S. state of Vermont.

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Hartford, Vermont

Hartford is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States.

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Heidi Scheuermann

Heidi E. Scheuermann is a Republican politician and businesswoman who served for sixteen years in the Vermont House of Representatives.

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Hillary Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as the first lady of the United States to former president Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001.

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Human Rights Campaign

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is an American LGBTQ advocacy group.

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Hurricane Irene

Hurricane Irene was a large and destructive tropical cyclone which affected much of the Caribbean and East Coast of the United States during late August 2011. The ninth named storm, first hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, Irene originated from a well-defined Atlantic tropical wave that began showing signs of organization east of the Lesser Antilles.

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Jim Douglas

James Holley Douglas (born June 21, 1951) is an American politician from the state of Vermont.

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Joe Benning

Joseph Charles Benning (born December 7, 1956) is an American politician and a Republican who served as a member of the Vermont Senate representing Caledonia District from 2011 to 2023.

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Joe Biden

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021.

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Joe Kennedy III

Joseph Patrick Kennedy III (born October 4, 1980) is an American politician and diplomat who has been the United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland since 2022.

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John S. Rodgers

John S. Rodgers (born July 29, 1965) is an American politician who served in the Vermont Senate from the Essex-Orleans district from 2013 to 2021.

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Justice Democrats

Justice Democrats (JD) is an American progressive political action committee and caucus founded on January 23, 2017, by two leaders of Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign, Saikat Chakrabarti and Zack Exley, as well as political commentators Kyle Kulinski and Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks.

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Kurt Wright

Kurt Wright (born February 7, 1956) is an American Republican politician who was elected and served in the Vermont House of Representatives.

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Larry Sabato

Larry Joseph Sabato (born August 7, 1952) is an American political scientist and political analyst.

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LGBTQ Victory Fund

LGBTQ+ Victory Fund (formerly the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and LGBTQ Victory Fund), commonly shortened to Victory Fund, is an American political action committee dedicated to increasing the number of out LGBTQ+ public officials in the United States.

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Linda K. Myers

Linda K. Myers (born August 18, 1940) is a Republican politician in Vermont.

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LPAC

LPAC, formally known as the Lesbian Super PAC, is a Super PAC founded in 2012 to represent the interests of lesbians in the United States, and to campaign on LGBT and women's rights issues.

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Margaret Flory

Margaret "Peg" Flory (born August 2, 1948) is a Republican politician who served in the Vermont Senate from 2011 until 2019, representing the Rutland District.

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Martin O'Malley

Martin Joseph O'Malley (born January 18, 1963) is an American politician serving as the 17th and current commissioner of the Social Security Administration since 2023.

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Mary A. Morrissey

Mary Ann Morrissey (born March 26, 1957) is a Republican politician who was elected and currently serves in the Vermont House of Representatives.

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Mike Mrowicki

Mike Mrowicki is an American politician who has served in the Vermont House of Representatives since 2009.

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Misha Collins

Dmitri "Misha" Collins "My mom went to Russia when she was in college, and she had a boyfriend whose name was Mitya, which she thought was the same as Misha, which it's not.

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National Education Association

The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest labor union in the United States.

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National Federation of Independent Business

The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is an association of small businesses in the United States.

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New Hampshire

New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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New York's 14th congressional district

New York's 14th congressional district is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives located in New York City, represented by Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

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Opioid epidemic

The opioid epidemic, also referred to as the opioid crisis, is the rapid increase in the overuse, misuse/abuse, and overdose deaths attributed either in part or in whole to the class of drugs called opiates/opioids since the 1990s.

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Patrick Leahy

Patrick Joseph Leahy, (born March 31, 1940) is an American politician and attorney who represented Vermont in the United States Senate from 1975 to 2023.

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Perennial candidate

A perennial candidate is a political candidate who frequently runs for elected office and rarely, if ever, wins.

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Peter Welch

Peter Francis Welch (born May 2, 1947) is an American lawyer and politician serving since 2023 as the junior United States senator from Vermont.

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Phil Scott

Philip Brian Scott (born August 4, 1958) is an American politician, businessman, and stock car racer who has been the 82nd governor of Vermont since 2017.

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Planned Parenthood

The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (PPFA), or simply Planned Parenthood, is an American nonprofit organization, p. 18.

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Politico

Politico (stylized in all caps), known originally as The Politico, is an American political digital newspaper company.

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Randy Brock

Randolph D. "Randy" Brock III (born September 28, 1943) is an American politician from the state of Vermont and a member of the Republican Party.

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RealClearPolitics

RealClearPolitics (RCP) is an American political news website and polling data aggregator.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Richard Lawrence (politician)

Richard Hoyt Lawrence (July 5, 1942 – November 24, 2022) was an American Republican politician who represented the Caledonia 4 district in the Vermont House of Representatives from 2005 until 2019.

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Robert Helm

Robert G. Helm (born 1949) is a Republican politician who served in the Vermont House of Representatives.

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Seven Days (newspaper)

Seven Days is an alternative weekly newspaper that is distributed every Wednesday in Vermont.

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Stuart Rothenberg

Stuart Rothenberg (born 1948) is an American editor, publisher, and political analyst.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Tom Burditt

Tom Burditt (born August 18, 1956) is an American politician and a Republican member of the Vermont House of Representatives representing District 2 of Rutland County.

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Tommy Walz

Tommy J. Walz (born September 22, 1945) is an American politician in the state of Vermont.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress.

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Vermont

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Vermont Air National Guard

The Vermont Air National Guard (VT ANG) is the aerial militia of the State of Vermont, United States of America.

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Vermont Electric Cooperative

The Vermont Electric Cooperative (VEC) is a consumer-owned electric distribution cooperative headquartered in Johnson, Vermont.

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Vermont House of Representatives

The Vermont House of Representatives is the lower house of the Vermont General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Vermont.

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Vermont National Guard

The Vermont National Guard is composed of the Vermont Army National Guard and the Vermont Air National Guard.

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Vermont Senate

The Vermont Senate is the upper house of the Vermont General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Vermont.

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Vote Smart

Vote Smart, formerly called Project Vote Smart, is an American non-profit, non-partisan research organization that collects and distributes information on candidates for public office in the United States.

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Warren Van Wyck

Warren Van Wyck (born October 25, 1952) is an American Republican politician.

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Windsor County, Vermont

Windsor County is a county located in the U.S. state of Vermont.

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WPTZ

WPTZ (channel 5) is a television station licensed to Plattsburgh, New York, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for the Burlington, Vermont–Plattsburgh, New York market.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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2004 United States Senate election in Vermont

The 2004 United States Senate election in Vermont was held on November 2, 2004.

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2006 United States House of Representatives election in Vermont

The 2006 United States House of Representatives election in Vermont was held on November 7, 2006 for representation of Vermont's at-large congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 2007 to January 3, 2009.

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2008 Vermont gubernatorial election

The 2008 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on November 4.

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2010 United States House of Representatives election in Vermont

The 2010 United States House of Representatives election in Vermont was held on November 2, 2010 and determined who would represent the state of Vermont in the United States House of Representatives.

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2014 Vermont gubernatorial election

The 2014 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 2014, to elect the Governor of Vermont, concurrently with elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

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2016 United States presidential election

The 2016 United States presidential election was the 58th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016.

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2016 Vermont gubernatorial election

The 2016 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 2016, and elected the governor of Vermont, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

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2018 United States House of Representatives elections

The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 6, 2018, as part of the 2018 midterm elections during President Donald Trump's term, with early voting taking place in some states in the weeks preceding that date.

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2018 United States Senate election in Vermont

The 2018 United States Senate election in Vermont was held November 6, 2018, alongside a gubernatorial election, U.S. House election, and other state and local elections. 2018 Vermont gubernatorial election and 2018 United States Senate election in Vermont are 2018 Vermont elections.

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2018 United States Senate elections

The 2018 United States Senate elections were held on November 6, 2018.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Vermont_gubernatorial_election

Also known as 2018 Vermont governor election, Ethan Sonneborn, Vermont gubernatorial election, 2018.

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See also

2018 United States gubernatorial elections

2018 Vermont elections

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