Here's the Thursday-morning QB'ing about Anthony Brown's nosedive.
Hint: Dems lose when the base stays home. Insider candidates are not exciting in off-year elections. Brown wasn't exciting anyway. Major GOTV fail in the "golden egg" counties of Prince Georges, Montgomery, and in Baltimore City.
MarylandReporter.com has a roundup. Here are four highlights, but by all means use the link at the end and visit the site. They're nonprofit, reliable, and need the clicks.
VOTER TURNOUT: The Sun’s Michael Dresser reports that Larry Hogan won his race for governor not just because Marylanders of both parties turned out to support his call for lower taxes, but because tens of thousands of Democrats in key jurisdictions stayed home. Turnout plummeted in Baltimore City and Montgomery and Prince George’s counties to the lowest levels in the state. http://www.baltimoresun.com/...
Here’s a link to several Sun maps showing how Maryland counties voted over the last four gubernatorial elections. http://www.baltimoresun.com/...
HOW BLUE IS MARYLAND? Jenna Johnson of the Post writes that after the surprise gubernatorial victory of Republican Larry Hogan in Maryland, pundits wondered how such an upset could happen in a state long dominated by Democrats. But how blue is Maryland? http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
A SETBACK FOR O’MALLEY: Anthony Brown’s loss in Maryland’s gubernatorial election was an unexpected setback for state Democrats — but it also represented a possible problem for the party’s patriarch, Gov. Martin O’Malley, as he eyes a campaign for president in 2016, John Fritze writes in the Sun. http://www.baltimoresun.com/...
- See more about Hogan at: http://marylandreporter.com/...