Dear Lrw,
Several surveys have been conducted on the question, unfortunately
most of them before the current decade:
"[...] For instance, Delli Carpini and Keeter (1996, p. 70) report
that 86 percent of respondents could name their governor in a 1970
survey and a 1985 survey found that 59 percent could identify
correctly the governor?s party (pp. 74-77). In 1987 the General Social
Survey found that 76 percent of respondents could correctly name their
state governor. A 1989 ABC News/Washington Post poll found that 79
percent of voters could correctly recall their governor?s name, but
only 52 percent could name either of their U. S. senators (Squire and
Fastnow, 1994). Thus, the scattered evidence that exists suggests that
governors are generally highly visible"
(SOURCE: Jeffrey E. Cohen and James King, "Gubernatorial Popularity
across Space and Time" Paper prepared for delivery at Duke
University-University of North Carolina American Politics Research
Group, March 7, 2003,
<http://www.unc.edu/polisci/aprg/aprg/pdfs/gubernatorial_nc_2_4_2003.pdf>).
More recent evidence is not so accurate:
January 2004: "One in four Americans can?t name their governor. One in
two can?t name their congressman" (SOURCE: Rob Goodman "Hate Bush?
Boycott the economy." Columbia Chronicle
<http://www.ccchronicle.com/back/2004-01-12/opinions3.html>).
I hope this answered your question. I searched the Internet for terms
that might appear, such as ["their governor's name"]. Please contact
me if you need any further clarification on this answer before you
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