↑ Upside

• The first Republican governor in over 30 years would count as a diversity hire
• Pro-choice, pro-birth control, and pro-gun control views balance out more abhorrent ones
• Orthopedic surgery skills could come in handy at any time
• All the Ferris Bueller jokes
• Sweet retro goatee
• We can pretend the “K” isn’t silent

↓ Downside

• Attended Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, because apparently Oregon schools weren’t good enough for him
• Name means “knot” in Norse, which is pretty boring
• Desire to cap state pensions could cause us all to rethink plans to run for same job in the future
• Lives in Bend, among the Californians
• Experience on Ross Perot’s 1992 presidential campaign must’ve had some effect
• Generally grammatical and rational Twitter feed—out of step!