Obama - he is very very promising but he needs a few years on him. He’s young.

There’s many other names but see what happens next year when campaign season is underway.

I hope this is a good lesson for people who didn’t think their vote would count. I hate researching on local politics especially in NYC. Too. Many. People. To . Vote. For. on city, county, state, and federal levels. I feel winded thinking about it.

Nancy Pelosi - I’m watching you.

I learned something from both of you! *grin*
From what both of you espouse about the large picture of political leanings within the state of Maryland to be wholly true.

I have not checked out the total statistical datas out of Maryland’s General Election 2006 voting tendency yet.

Thanks again for sharing such information with all of us!

Robert L. Mason (RLM)

(I know. Al probably won’t run agan, and I don’t blame him)

Clark/Obama
Feingold/Obama

And as for Hillary, I’m not really crazy about her. I don’t think she has a chance in h*ll of winning an presidental election because there is so much bile out there against her. That, and I’m tired of the Clintons.

But if there was a woman out there I’d vote for as President, hmm, let me think..

Olympia Snowe…
Nancy Pelosi (?)

who else?

The Youth vote was dramatically up this year. Turnout was high - there may have been people who did not vote but the percentage was higher this year for a mid-term election and that was because the issues were more national in nature.

Trend nationwide is for divided government. Oklahoma is a strong red state and yet reelected their Democratic governor. Arizona the same - Colorado, etc. However, Maryland remains a strong blue state with conservative and liberal Democrats mixed together with areas of republicanism.

The irony of this is: I’ve always felt that Montgomery County is a strict county. Seeing as I grew up in Frederick, MD & I see so many changes constantly (mainly because there are not as many laws & regulations to go through). Montgomery County– the changes are much more slow & the laws are STRICT here, yet it’s a Democratic county. That’s where I think it’s ironic, how it’s a dominately Democrats.

I meant to add that I see Maryland as a liberal republican state or should I say, conservative democratic state? However way it goes, I see Maryland as one of the few that do have the Republicans and Democrats working together.

As for the governor races, I always perceived Erlich as a liberal Republican because I do feel that he did do some good while he was in office. Hopefully O’Malley will continue on to making good changes in Maryland, seeing as O’Malley has improved Baltimore quite a bit since being Mayor of Baltimore.

It is not correct. In fact, Maryland had been solid Democrat governors since 1968. In 2002, finally Enrlich became the first Republican governor.
However he tried to get re-elected but he lost.

Do you want to know who was the last Republican governor of MD in 1968?

It was Spiro Agnew who decided to resign his governor position in order to become nominated for the US Vice President position with Richard Nixon. They barely won the US presidential election to defeat Herbert Humphey as called ‘HHH’, who used to be the US Vice President serving under LBJ. In 1972, VP Spiro Agnew forced to resign due to his tax evasion problems. Gerald Ford took over VP position until 1974, he became President after Richard Nixon resigned

I often wonder if Spiro Agnew does not get his tax evasion problems, he could become the first Greek desendent president but it never happened.