1.   Although Mexican governors are popularly elected, presidents have the power in practice to force their removal.

2.   And as history has demonstrated, despite the media focus on Washington figures, voters prefer to elect governors to the presidency.

3.   At the news conference, he said simply that if elected governor, he would abolish parole for violent felons.

4.   But Rosenbaum is unrepentant, warning against electing a governor who is not independent.

5.   Finally, new governors will be elected in six states, including Sonora, where the PAN could give the PRI a run for its money.

6.   Heading into the fall campaign, party leaders seem more upbeat about electing a governor than in any race in years.

7.   I can tolerate a state that once elected a governor named Evan Mecham, who thought pickaninny was an inoffensive word.

8.   If elected governor, he says he would not block Medicaid financing, even if the Legislature rejected his counseling proposal.

9.   In elections elsewhere, Mississippi also elected a governor and New Jersey, like Virginia, got a new legislature.

10.   In another first, residents of Mexico City will elect a governor.