Open MD-06 Discussion

[Spectator]

MD-06 is not competitive at all. Frederick County is now safely blue, plus even the Republican counties in that seat are trending left.

[Spectator]

Biden won this district by 20 points in 2020 right? He'll probably perform the same and it would be really hard to see Republicans winning this seat at the same time.

edit: wait I forgot it lost a lot of Montgomery County but I still don't see it flipping during a presidential election.

He won it by 10 in 2020, but the seat is still rending left (even the rurals) and has shown no signs of stopping. The Dems running for Senate and Governor did better than Biden in Frederick County and most of the other counties too.

[Spectator]

I'm surprised there hasn't been more discussion of this primary.

It appears that the race is down to April McClain Delaney (John Delaney's wife), Joe Vogel (27-year old state Delegate from MontCo, who I went to college with but don't know personally), and Lesley Lopez (another state Delegate).

There are quite a few other candidates, including the Mayor of Hagerstown, but it seems those three are the only ones who have a chance to win.

However with 5 days left in the race, I get the sense that Vogel might actually eke out the win.

Really hope Vogel doesn’t win. Every person who I’ve know in College Student Gov has been the most insufferable, duplicitous, and self serving people, whether it was in SC or CO. I hope Lopez can beat him, she seems like an actually decent person.

GW Student government is a comic opera - it's full of kids absolutely convinced they'll be major politicians (or major political operatives) who take this too seriously. Vogel was one of them.

If you're looking for fun reads, I recommend reading the GW Hatchet (school paper)'s stories about student government/student election scandals over the years:

https://gwhatchet.com/?s=election+scandal

You’ll find that in any student government. Everyone thinks they’re gonna be the next House of Cards or Scandal real-life persona. It’s insufferable. Then theyare shocked when they realize that being in student government won’t overcome their 2.7 GPA and 154 LSAT to get into Yale or Harvard Law.