What an election.  It was not unexpected.  The country simply does not want to be led in the same direction.  A 48 seat swing proves that.  It is somewhat refreshing because it sends a message to Republicans that conservatives will not simply support them because they are not democrats.  When you abandon conservative principles and [...]

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I saw on FOX News that O'Malley won but when I looked at the numbers Ehrlich was up by 20,000 votes.  With as many as 193,000 absentee ballots we will not know for sure for several days.  I think it looks good for Ehrlich.  Steele is slightly behind but again absentee ballots will benefit Republican [...]

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With Election Day coming up we as Republicans have a lot at stake.  We have Congress at stake, we have the Governor’s seat at stake, we have our local Council at stake, and we have the sheriff’s office on the line.  I know that I have learned a lot, politically speaking, from observing local, state, [...]

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I wrote this back in the summer but it never seemed to fit.  So here it is: 
This is completely random but with the democrats threatening every so often to move the primary date to make Maryland a larger player on the National stage, I did some research on Election Day. For those of you who [...]

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I crunched some numbers today and what I found was quite interesting.  I created a simple formula that I applied to all the candidates that had their finance reports filed with the State Board of Elections.  The formula divided the total amount of campaign expenses from the candidates Pre-Primary reports by the number of votes [...]

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With the primary almost over and the absentee votes being counted and counted again, we are almost in general season. The losing camps are licking their wounds and making decisions about what to do with their supporters and the winning camps are living it up for a few days. Donna’s event at Buontempo [...]

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With one day until the deadline, here is the current line up of filed candidates. I will add any candidate that files on Monday, July 3. (Former rumors are crossed out)
County Executive:

Ann Helton (D)
David Craig (R)
Mark Fisher (R)

Lance Miller (R)

County Council President:

Aaron Kazi (R)
William Boniface (R)
Robert Wagner (R)
Mike Geppi (R)

County Council District A:

William [...]

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1.) Mark Fisher enters Executive race against Craig
2.) Guthrie has a challenger, William Coates
3.) Marian Bollinger in District F has a challenger, Fred Silva (no dems yet)
4.) Joe Price enters the sheriff’s race to make it 5 Republicans

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With one month to go until the filing deadline, let’s get the candidates lined up:
*Rumors/Speculation in italics
County Executive:

Ann Helton (D)
David Craig (R)
Lance Miller (R)

County Council President:

Aaron Kazi (R)
William Boniface (R)
Robert Wagner (R)
Mike Geppi (R)

County Council District A:

Dion Guthrie (D)
Chris Biggs (R)
Paula Mullis (R)

County Council District B:

Valerie Twanmoh (D)
Roni Chenowith (R)
Kevin Kane (R)
Jerry [...]

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With Tom Golding now out of the race and the excuse being “underhanded tactics,” I think now would be a good time to discuss what “underhanded tactics” and “nasty” campaigning look like. This is an accusation thrown around every year by candidates who don’t like what their opponents say about them. I have seen nasty [...]

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