Washington Post endorses David Blair for Montgomery County Exec

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Exactly. I’m not sure why pp is getting so worked up. This isn’t a trump/Hillary or gore/bush situation.

The real issue will be the governor race in the fall.

I actually care more about this race. I think either way the state will be in decent hands, although Hogan has many flaws.

+1. I think Hogan will win (and particularly so if Jealous is the D nominee). There is a ton riding on the MoCo executive race though. Much more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly. I’m not sure why pp is getting so worked up. This isn’t a trump/Hillary or gore/bush situation.

The real issue will be the governor race in the fall.

I actually care more about this race. I think either way the state will be in decent hands, although Hogan has many flaws.

Who were you rooting for? Who is the “disaster”?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Who is the horrible choice here?

Indeed. Voting for Blair to beat Elrich made no sense, because I strongly didn't want Blair. But voting for Elrich to beat Blair made no sense, because I strongly didn't want Elrich.

Well one was going to win so the adult thing to do is vote for the one you think us least bad. But I guess it’s easier to engage in magical thinking and denial and say “they’re both bad so it doesn’t matter!” That’s how we end up with Trump. Idiots.

PP you're responding to. I spent a lot of time thinking about whether one of them was less bad than the other. I decided that they were equally bad, though for different reasons. So I voted for someone who was neither Blair nor Elrich..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly. I’m not sure why pp is getting so worked up. This isn’t a trump/Hillary or gore/bush situation.

The real issue will be the governor race in the fall.

I actually care more about this race. I think either way the state will be in decent hands, although Hogan has many flaws.

Who were you rooting for? Who is the “disaster”?

I am the last person you quoted, but the person who talked about the disaster I assume was talking about Elrich.

I also very much oppose Elrich.

[Anonymous]

The poster thinks Elrich is the horrible choice/disaster and was upset at people for voting for Frick instead of Blair when Blair was clearly the candidate with the best chance of beating Elrich

[Anonymous]

They are within 0.1% of each other right now....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The poster thinks Elrich is the horrible choice/disaster and was upset at people for voting for Frick instead of Blair when Blair was clearly the candidate with the best chance of beating Elrich

I didn’t want Blair to win.

[Anonymous]

Looks to me like Elrich is on the verge of winning


CANDIDATE VOTES PERCENTAGE
David Blair 33,788
28.9%
Marc Elrich 34,163
29.2%

Elrich is winning by 375 votes


116929 votes are counted, which is 95.79%

That means the total is 122,068

122,068-116929=5139 votes left

Not enough for Blair to overtake Elrich IMO

Sucks

[Anonymous]

^ results from here: https://elections2018.news.baltimoresun.com/results/

[Anonymous]

Getting closer to 100% reported

[Anonymous]

Don't think Amazon would ever land in an Elrich-run county

[Anonymous]

News 4 just said they won't certify the Council Exec until July 5, because it's too close + the 80,000 provisional ballots. Between Blaire and Erlich, neck and neck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't think Amazon would ever land in an Elrich-run county

Sure it could. There is much more going on in MoCo than just the CE. Remember, the Council has all the appropriation authority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:News 4 just said they won't certify the Council Exec until July 5, because it's too close + the 80,000 provisional ballots. Between Blaire and Erlich, neck and neck.

Oh! Good to know about the provisional ballots. I just did the math a few posts up and figured it must be for sure going to Elrich based on that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:News 4 just said they won't certify the Council Exec until July 5, because it's too close + the 80,000 provisional ballots. Between Blaire and Erlich, neck and neck.

Oh! Good to know about the provisional ballots. I just did the math a few posts up and figured it must be for sure going to Elrich based on that.

Those 80,000 are across the state. No idea how many in MoCo.