Today on WBAL Radio (yeah yeah I know) Blair Lee (hack from the Gazette) mentioned an article today on the Ron Smith show that claims O'Malley is up 2%. The following article states otherwise, but not in a good way.
More after the jump...
UPDATE: The NY Times made an error and will correct the error in tomorrows paper.
According to the New York Times:
In Maryland, where blacks make up about 30 percent of the electorate, the Democratic candidate for governor, Martin O'Malley, who is white, is trailing the Republican incumbent, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., by several points. Mr. O'Malley needs a large turnout among blacks in Baltimore to win, and he has mobilized more than 2,000 get-out-the-vote workers in black neighborhoods. He also helped his chances of attracting the black vote by selecting Anthony G. Brown, a black lawyer, as his running mate.
Im not sure if this a typo or what. Maybe they know something we dont? The New York Times does polling from time to time. Maybe they have some poll numbers that have yet to be released.
I am complete poll junkie and usually know about polls before just about anyone, but this one has me totally stumped. Pollster releases polls before anyone and mention no poll in which Ehrlich leads.
Dear Mr. Shep:
Indeed, you are correct -- and we were wrong. We are running a
correction on Page A2 of Saturday's Times.
Thanks for reading The Times, and for taking the time to write and
point this out.
Best regards,
Greg Brock
Senior Editor
At 06:56 PM 10/27/2006, you wrote:
>I enyjoed the article titled 'Disillusionment in Black Voters' in
>the 10/27 edition of the times (US Politics Section); however, as an
>avid fan of Maryland politics, I question this part of the article.
>
>"In Maryland, where blacks make up about 30 percent of the
>electorate, the Democratic candidate for governor, Martin O'Malley,
>who is white, is trailing the Republican incumbent, Robert L.
>Ehrlich Jr., by several points. Mr. O'Malley needs a large turnout
>among blacks in Baltimore to win, and he has mobilized more than
>2,000 get-out-the-vote workers in black neighborhoods. He also
>helped his chances of attracting the black vote by selecting Anthony
>G. Brown, a black lawyer, as his running mate."
>
>I believe this could be an error because I follow the polls and not
>a single poll has shown Governor Ehrlich in the lead.
>
>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2006/governor/md/maryland_governor_race-42.html
>
>Could this be a possible typo?