Despite efforts by the mainstream media to portray the Democratic Primary for the Maryland Governor's race as a two person race, recent polling by St. Mary's College in Maryland indicates that Mizeur may indeed have a shot at winning. The polling shows that since October 2013, Brown's support has fallen by about 14% while Gansler's support has fallen by about 10%.
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By contrast, Mizeur's support is rising along with undecided. According to Todd Eberly, an Associate Professor at St. Mary's College:
This is a sad state of affairs folks. We have two rather well known and established candidates in Brown and Gansler - and yet, the more they campaign and the more people learn about them the less people seem to like them.
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Eberly also indicated that given this, Mizeur might have a shot.
Though she's still in the single digits, Mizeur is the only candidate gaining ground. She still has a lot of ground to make up, but it's a lot easier to gain on an opponent when that opponent is falling.. . .
Gansler and Brown had better watch out. They're each doing such an effective job convincing the public to reject the other that by Primary Day on June 24th they may just discover that they were so busy tearing each other down they didn't notice how effectively they were building Mizeur up.
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While I must admit that I am not familiar with the track record of the St. Mary's College poll, I did think that this poll was worth reporting because many people in Maryland (including some people on this website) have written Mizeur off even though they like her because they believe that she cannot win. These people are resigned to hold their nose and vote for the lesser of the two evils (Brown or Gansler).
To those people, I would say, don't be so quick to decide. Give it some time since we still have two months to go until the primary. And I would suspect that we are going to see another poll of the race by a major media outlet such as The Washington Post. (Hey Kos: Are you interested in polling this one?). And if such a poll does show that Mizeur is in fact a viable candidate, with some hard work from volunteers and word of mouth, it may in fact be possible for her to win the democratic nomination for Governor.
And wouldn't you rather vote for a candidate that is a true progressive and who you like, rather than someone who is simply better than the other guy.
For more information about Heather Mizeur:
http://www.heathermizeur.com
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