Because the Democrats are on-track to nominate the guy most responsible for utterly wrecking their state Obamacare exchange.
Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown has strengthened his lead in the fiercely contested Democratic primary for governor and enters the campaign’s final two weeks with a 2-1 advantage over his closest competitor, according to a new poll for The Baltimore Sun.
In the Republican race, businessman and activist Larry Hogan is running well ahead of his three opponents, the poll found.
It’ll be interesting to see whether Democratic candidate Doug Gansler’s full-bore attacks on Lt. Gov. Brown have any effect – possibly not in the primary, but there’s always the general election. The Post notes in that link that Gansler and Brown are starting to throw serious shots at each other over this; speaking as a Maryland Republican, it would simply fill me with grief if the two camps were burning each other’s campaign signs by June 24. And before you ask me why it’d matter, my answer would be: down-ticket races. We won’t start to recover in Maryland until we start making inroads on the state legislature.
Moe Lane
PS: What’s mine is mine: what’s yours is negotiable is not an attitude that one should blithely accept in one’s own side. Fight it out. You might get lucky.
