Will Montgomery County ever elect a Republican?

[Anonymous]

At the county level, would MoCo ever seriously consider electing a Republican?

It just seems that everybody hates the council & executive. Complaints about every policy of theirs every which-way.... they are either too NIMBY or too beholden to developers (pick one), too anti-business, too pro-union, or not enough, they are opening up too quickly or not quickly enough, they go against LArry Hogan too much or they aren't standing up to him enough, blah blah blah. People on DCUM especially love to hate Marc Elrich, who won every race for council at large and then won handily over Floreen AND Ficker, combined.

So if the council and executive are so universally despised.... why do you keep re-electing them?

Contrary to popular belief, there is more than one political party. As Hogan (at least before the covid vaccine debacle) is relatively popular and moderate, why can't a Republican of the Hogan model run and compete in Montgomery County? Not a nutter like Ficker. Is there any chance that a non-corrupt, never-Trumper, sane, moderate Republican could win a GOP primary and win a general election for Council or Executive? Or is the R label too toxic here?

[Anonymous]

Ficker is an total idiot

I think the modest democrats and modest republicans are pretty much the same here. If you put a D after a moderate republicans last name on the ballot they would get elected.

I think the time is coming, the people who vote in Montgomery county are waking up after this school year and the closing of businesses.

[Anonymous]

No. The Council chose the representatives for the Redistricting Commission. They've cooked the books before it even begins.

Folks do need to wake up if they want any real changes. And I say this as a moderate Democrat. You all are about to lose your police department and I just wonder if anyone is even paying attention.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At the county level, would MoCo ever seriously consider electing a Republican?

It just seems that everybody hates the council & executive. Complaints about every policy of theirs every which-way.... they are either too NIMBY or too beholden to developers (pick one), too anti-business, too pro-union, or not enough, they are opening up too quickly or not quickly enough, they go against LArry Hogan too much or they aren't standing up to him enough, blah blah blah. People on DCUM especially love to hate Marc Elrich, who won every race for council at large and then won handily over Floreen AND Ficker, combined.

So if the council and executive are so universally despised.... why do you keep re-electing them?

Contrary to popular belief, there is more than one political party. As Hogan (at least before the covid vaccine debacle) is relatively popular and moderate, why can't a Republican of the Hogan model run and compete in Montgomery County? Not a nutter like Ficker. Is there any chance that a non-corrupt, never-Trumper, sane, moderate Republican could win a GOP primary and win a general election for Council or Executive? Or is the R label too toxic here?

Depends. Would the Republican Party ever seriously consider putting up a Republican candidate whom Montgomery County voters might actually vote for? Their record on that is terrible. In recent years, there have been several occasions where I thought about voting for the Republican candidate purely as a protest vote, because I was so angry about something the Democratic candidate had done - and then I looked at the Republican candidate, and N O P E nope. So instead I wrote in my neighbor, or my cat.

The non-corrupt, never-Trumper, sane, moderate Republicans in Montgomery County run as Democrats. The Republican Party puts up corrupt, Trumpy, nutty, right-wingers. And then they play the aggrieved victim when the voters don't want what they're peddling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. The Council chose the representatives for the Redistricting Commission. They've cooked the books before it even begins.

Folks do need to wake up if they want any real changes. And I say this as a moderate Democrat. You all are about to lose your police department and I just wonder if anyone is even paying attention.

Oh good grief. No, we are not about to lose our police department, whatever that would even mean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the county level, would MoCo ever seriously consider electing a Republican?

It just seems that everybody hates the council & executive. Complaints about every policy of theirs every which-way.... they are either too NIMBY or too beholden to developers (pick one), too anti-business, too pro-union, or not enough, they are opening up too quickly or not quickly enough, they go against LArry Hogan too much or they aren't standing up to him enough, blah blah blah. People on DCUM especially love to hate Marc Elrich, who won every race for council at large and then won handily over Floreen AND Ficker, combined.

So if the council and executive are so universally despised.... why do you keep re-electing them?

Contrary to popular belief, there is more than one political party. As Hogan (at least before the covid vaccine debacle) is relatively popular and moderate, why can't a Republican of the Hogan model run and compete in Montgomery County? Not a nutter like Ficker. Is there any chance that a non-corrupt, never-Trumper, sane, moderate Republican could win a GOP primary and win a general election for Council or Executive? Or is the R label too toxic here?

Depends. Would the Republican Party ever seriously consider putting up a Republican candidate whom Montgomery County voters might actually vote for? Their record on that is terrible. In recent years, there have been several occasions where I thought about voting for the Republican candidate purely as a protest vote, because I was so angry about something the Democratic candidate had done - and then I looked at the Republican candidate, and N O P E nope. So instead I wrote in my neighbor, or my cat.

The non-corrupt, never-Trumper, sane, moderate Republicans in Montgomery County run as Democrats. The Republican Party puts up corrupt, Trumpy, nutty, right-wingers. And then they play the aggrieved victim when the voters don't want what they're peddling.

this, I think republicans could do well in blue suburbs, but only if they run traditional Rockefeller republicans. Running someone who bases a campaign around immigration and the second amendment just ensures they will lose

[Anonymous]

Where are the Connie Morella Republican candidates? As long as they’re like Ficker: No. Montgomery County has lots of educated, involved voters. Any candidate running in any party will have to recognize and cater to that demographic.

[Anonymous]

No.

Unfortunately both parties have moved so far to the left and right but only the loudest most extreme candidates from those parties when the primaries, and in that case in Montgomery county only the Democrat will win.

[Anonymous]

No one should elect Republicans. They are bad for the country.

[Anonymous]

I might if there is a sane one left. But, also, if you are judging the polticial atmosphere by this forum, then that's why you are probably confused as to why a R never gets elected here.

-former R

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No.

Unfortunately both parties have moved so far to the left and right but only the loudest most extreme candidates from those parties when the primaries, and in that case in Montgomery county only the Democrat will win.

That is completely untrue. I don't know how Erlich won, maybe because he just gets the white male vote, but he won the primaries by <1000 votes.

There were very moderate Democrats but the lower 1/2 of Montgomery county is more engaged (aka has time on their hands) to get their man in the office.

Maybe if you really care, campaign for the moderate democrat or find a Republican who is not mentally illl and has not been banned from multiple venues because he is such a horrible person.

While we are on the subject, why can't Republicans find somebody who is not mentally ill?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No.

Unfortunately both parties have moved so far to the left and right but only the loudest most extreme candidates from those parties when the primaries, and in that case in Montgomery county only the Democrat will win.

That is completely untrue. I don't know how Erlich won, maybe because he just gets the white male vote, but he won the primaries by <1000 votes.

There were very moderate Democrats but the lower 1/2 of Montgomery county is more engaged (aka has time on their hands) to get their man in the office.

Maybe if you really care, campaign for the moderate democrat or find a Republican who is not mentally illl and has not been banned from multiple venues because he is such a horrible person.

While we are on the subject, why can't Republicans find somebody who is not mentally ill?

Huh? Aren't white males more likely to be Republicans? Or do you mean white males as in Bernie Bros.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No.

Unfortunately both parties have moved so far to the left and right but only the loudest most extreme candidates from those parties when the primaries, and in that case in Montgomery county only the Democrat will win.

That is completely untrue. I don't know how Erlich won, maybe because he just gets the white male vote, but he won the primaries by <1000 votes.

There were very moderate Democrats but the lower 1/2 of Montgomery county is more engaged (aka has time on their hands) to get their man in the office.

Maybe if you really care, campaign for the moderate democrat or find a Republican who is not mentally illl and has not been banned from multiple venues because he is such a horrible person.

While we are on the subject, why can't Republicans find somebody who is not mentally ill?

Huh? Aren't white males more likely to be Republicans? Or do you mean white males as in Bernie Bros.

There's a difference between white college educated and nonwhite college educated males. Education is the distinction.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No.

Unfortunately both parties have moved so far to the left and right but only the loudest most extreme candidates from those parties when the primaries, and in that case in Montgomery county only the Democrat will win.

That is completely untrue. I don't know how Erlich won, maybe because he just gets the white male vote, but he won the primaries by <1000 votes.

There were very moderate Democrats but the lower 1/2 of Montgomery county is more engaged (aka has time on their hands) to get their man in the office.

Maybe if you really care, campaign for the moderate democrat or find a Republican who is not mentally illl and has not been banned from multiple venues because he is such a horrible person.

While we are on the subject, why can't Republicans find somebody who is not mentally ill?

Huh? Aren't white males more likely to be Republicans? Or do you mean white males as in Bernie Bros.

There's a difference between white college educated and nonwhite college educated males. Education is the distinction.

I'm not sure how this difference plays out in montgomery county local politics?

White college educated males also lean Republican, except likely more Rockefeller Republican than Trumplican.
Younger white college educated males are more likely Bernie Bros, or super "woke" in ways that actually annoy the people that the white woke claim to "protect." I don't see either of this in Elrich.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No.

Unfortunately both parties have moved so far to the left and right but only the loudest most extreme candidates from those parties when the primaries, and in that case in Montgomery county only the Democrat will win.

That is completely untrue. I don't know how Erlich won, maybe because he just gets the white male vote, but he won the primaries by <1000 votes.

There were very moderate Democrats but the lower 1/2 of Montgomery county is more engaged (aka has time on their hands) to get their man in the office.

Maybe if you really care, campaign for the moderate democrat or find a Republican who is not mentally illl and has not been banned from multiple venues because he is such a horrible person.

While we are on the subject, why can't Republicans find somebody who is not mentally ill?

Thanks. I really do care but I’m not going to campaign for any candidate.