'The 18 (!) Governorships Democrats Could Pick Up This Year'
"If the much-ballyhooed “blue wave” does materialize this fall, it could be Republican governors who suffer the most losses.
The other day, we ran down the seven governorships held by Democrats or independents that could fall to the GOP in November. Today’s list of vulnerable Republican seats is more than twice as long. According to qualitative assessments by nonpartisan handicappers — The Cook Political Report, Sabato’s Crystal Ball and Inside Elections,1 — only eight GOP-held governorships are completely safe in 2018.2 That leaves 18 Republican-held governorships in some degree of danger. Although it’s still too early to fully trust the polls in these races, here is a 30,000-foot rundown of Democrats’ potential 18 in ’18:" - 538
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...-up-this-year/