MD: Washington Post: Mikulski (D) ahead by 37

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That 3% more federal employees is clearly the only reason Mikulski is leading by 37%.

Yes, but in addition to the federal employees who just had a sudden epiphany about the size of government under the Democrats, there are blacks too!  Which is new, I guess.

I'm with Mr. Read.  Does anyone have a less zany explanation for Mikulski's ridiculous leads this year?

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That 3% more federal employees is clearly the only reason Mikulski is leading by 37%.

Yes, but in addition to the federal employees who just had a sudden epiphany about the size of government under the Democrats, there are blacks too!  Which is new, I guess.

I'm with Mr. Read.  Does anyone have a less zany explanation for Mikulski's ridiculous leads this year?

Who said anything about sudden?  High percentage of government workers + blacks + post-grad educated = a hoplessly Democratic state.  Mikulski is an incumbent that Marylanders like.

Yes, and she was an incumbent Marylanders liked in 2006 too, when she didn't win by this much despite a much more Democratic year.

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Democrats= the pretentiously overeducated and those with less than college or high school education.  In other words, a coalition of the not-so-smart and the I-think-I'm-smarter than you crowd.

That's interesting.  I wasn't aware that pretension was a pre-requisite for a postgraduate degree (aka "overeducation"), or that having a  less-than-college education made someone "not-so-smart."  Plenty of folks in my graduating class didn't bother with college, and let me tell you, they'd find your framing job to be really charming.

I wonder when the coalition of people who will answer my question instead of soapboxing obnoxiously will arrive.

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Democrats= the pretentiously overeducated and those with less than college or high school education.  In other words, a coalition of the not-so-smart and the I-think-I'm-smarter than you crowd.

That's interesting.  I wasn't aware that pretension was a pre-requisite for a postgraduate degree (aka "overeducation"), or that having a  less-than-college education made someone "not-so-smart."  Plenty of folks in my graduating class didn't bother with college, and let me tell you, they'd find your framing job to be really charming.

I wonder when the coalition of people who will answer my question instead of soapboxing obnoxiously will arrive.

Perhaps not-so-obviously, my comment is part tongue in cheek.  I'd didn't mean to equate lack of a college education as "not so smart", especially since many of those without a college education tend to be older folks who simply didn't go to college back in the day. 
 
Pretension is certainly not a pre-requisite for a postgraduate degree, but it often comes with the territory.   Democrats are the party that thinks government knows best - and the overeducated often have the attitude that they know better than the rest of us plebes.

Thank you for a partisan re-framing of American Politics 101 explanations of political ideologies in America.  I continue to have no idea why Mikulski is polling so well, but at least now I can write the essay portion of the final of a community college class I took two years ago.