Complex sentence: Sundquist's first term was rather unremarkable, although state government grew quite rapidly in comparison to the growth of the state's economy as a whole, and he attracted no serious opposition within his party for renomination in 1998.
Split into simpler sentences: Sundquist's first term was rather unremarkable, although state government grew quite rapidly in comparison to the growth of the state's economy as a whole. He attracted no serious opposition within his party for renomination in 1998.