 
Green streak in deep-red Idaho
There is probably no “redder” state in America than Idaho. Trust me. I grew up on the banks of the Snake River in an extended family that included a three-term Democratic governor who made the fatal political mistake of running against “The Lion of the Senate,” William E. Borah. (I know this only from family stories and the history books. That campaign was way before my time.) In the decades since Ben Ross’s final campaign there have been only a handful of Democrats elected statewide. One of my earliest campaigns was helping elect Cecil Andrus governor before he was tapped by Jimmy Carter to serve as secretary of the Interior. Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) was a hero of mine in large part because of his courage in leading opposition to the War in Vietnam alongside the first Sen. Al Gore (D-Tenn.). That was years before Sens. Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.) and Robert Kennedy (D-N.Y.) forced President Lyndon Johnson from office.
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