MD-Gov: Don't be Jealous!

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Sanders got annihilated in Maryland though. Clinton beat him by 30 points.

In a head to head race. 35% of the vote wins if your two opponents get 32.5 each.

Agreed, plus depending on who else runs I could imagine Ben doing better with the African American community than Bernie did.

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Hogan was to cut higher education and juvenile justice in the upcoming budget.

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Hogan protects Trump: Maryland lawmakers promised Attorney General Brian Frosh $1 million and five new lawyers to file lawsuits against the Trump administration next year, but Republican Gov. Larry Hogan left that money out of his budget.

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Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett will be endorsing Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker for Governor today

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https://twitter.com/RushernBaker/status/979008583361810433


Rushern Baker
‏ @RushernBaker

"Hogan repeatedly made private promises and deals to gun rights advocates, all while refusing to take any public stance on gun safety during his campaign." http://www.dbknews.com/2018/03/28/nra-gun-control-maryland-hogan/ … @OpinionDBK

Didn't know about this before, but Hogan apparently does have an A- NRA rating, and refused to pass anything following the Las Vegas shooting.

Woah, I didn't know he had such a good rating either. This could be the focus of the fall campaign.

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I may endorse Hogan tbh; Jealous is a Berniecrat but I just don’t trust him to run the state and don’t know much about Baker. Regardless, MD, outside the rural parts, strikes me as pro-gun control, so not a good look for Hogan.

Well, i doubt, that Carroll county, for example (mostly suburban, IIRC, but 82% for Hogan in 2014 and 63% for Trump in 2016), is a hotbed for gun control initiatives too....

Carroll County is exurban if anything and in the grand scheme of things really doesn't matter as it was only 3.7% of the total vote in the '14 Gov race. Compared to 15.3% for Montogmery County, 15.2% for Baltimore County, and 12.7% for Prince George's County.

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I may endorse Hogan tbh; Jealous is a Berniecrat but I just don’t trust him to run the state and don’t know much about Baker. Regardless, MD, outside the rural parts, strikes me as pro-gun control, so not a good look for Hogan.

Well, i doubt, that Carroll county, for example (mostly suburban, IIRC, but 82% for Hogan in 2014 and 63% for Trump in 2016), is a hotbed for gun control initiatives too....

Carroll County is exurban if anything and in the grand scheme of things really doesn't matter as it was only 3.7% of the total vote in the '14 Gov race. Compared to 15.3% for Montogmery County, 15.2% for Baltimore County, and 12.7% for Prince George's County.

Democrats already tried this strategy in 2014. They won Montgomery, Prince George and Baltimore city (not county, i admit) in governor election. Was it enough?. And Baltimore county, while going for Clinton in 2016, is less reflexively liberal then these three...

Turnout was down in the DC burbs counties in 2014 compared to 2010.

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Really sad

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Baltimore Sun endorses Jealous

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I'm voting for Jealous and my wife is voting for Madaleno (who would be my second choice).

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I am having serious reservations about Jealous. The thing I like about Maryland Democrats is that they tend to put partisanship aside for what's best for the state, and I don't have confidence that Jealous is that kind of Maryland Democrat.

While I'm open to the idea of single-payer, I don't think a state-level system would work, especially in Maryland where the resulting shock to the market would force health care companies to lay-off their workers. It doesn't inspire much confidence in me that Jealous said that people "would just have to get another job."

If he were elected, Mike Miller and Mike Busch could be a check on him, since they probably are against single-payer, but I'm worried that in this era of partisanship, that could fall through. At the moment, I am undecided in the race. Now I know how it feels to be like a Never-Trumper.

Did you just compare Jealous to Trump? Jealous was the most pragmatic Sanders supporter at 2016 DNC Platform committee.

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Maryland's early vote has been bonkers this year. Well about 2014, probably 3/4ths of 2016. Hogan is still gonna win, but I would not be shocked it was closer than some of the polling.