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31-Oct-02</b><p> <font size="3" color="#000000">GOVERNOR RACE RATINGS<br>Updated OCTOBER 31, 2002<br><br>DEMOCRATIC HELD SEATS<br><br>LIKELY DEMOCRATIC<br>Barnes - GA<br><br>LEAN DEMOCRATIC<br>Davis - CA<br>OR (Kitzhaber)<br><br>TOSS-UP<br>AK (Knowles)<br>HI (Cayetano)<br>MD (Glendening)<br>VT (Dean)<br>Hodges - SC<br>Siegelman - AL<br>Vilsack - IA<br><br>LEAN REPUBLICAN<br>NH (Shaheen)<br><br>INDEPENDENT HELD SEATS<br><br>LEAN DEM<br>ME (King)<br><br>TOSS-UP<br>MN - Ventura<br><br>REPUBLICAN HELD SEATS<br><br>SOLID REPUBLICAN<br>Guinn - NV<br>Johanns - NE<br>Kempthorn - ID<br>Owens - CO<br>Taft - OH<br><br>LIKELY REPUBLICAN<br>OK (Keating)<br>Pataki - NY<br>Rowland - CT<br><br>LEAN REPUBLICAN<br>SD (Janklow)<br>Perry - TX<br><br>TOSS- UP<br>AZ (Hull)<br>MA (Swift)<br>RI (Almond)<br>TN (Sundquist)<br>WY (Geringer)<br>Bush - FL<br>Huckabee - AR<br>McCallum - WI<br><br>LEAN DEM <br>IL (Ryan)<br>KS (Graves)<br>MI (Engler)<br>PA (Schweiker)<br><br>LIKELY DEM<br>NM (Johnson)</font><font 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