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[quote=Anonymous]I agree with Hogan's estimation.  There are about 15% extremists on the far right.  There are about 15% extremists on the far left.  And about 70% of the nation that are centrist.  In MD, I'd say about 50-55% (out of the 70%) of the centrists lean left and identify more with the Democrats or Independents and about 15-20% lean right.  I note that the most popular governors in the nation right now are Republicans in deep blue states.  To me, this is because the only Republicans who can get elected in blue states are moderate Republicans.  It used to be that such Republicans were very mainstream, but now the party has moved so far right (to be fair, the Democratic party has move farther left, too) that these moderates don't really identify with their party any more.  They are called RINO's and are attacked from the right for caving to the Democrats.  But in point of fact, they are moderate and centrist and what the nation and states want right now.

Hogan is the second most popular governor.  He is behind Charlie Baker who is also a Republican in a heavily Democratic state.  In fact 3 of the top 4 and 5 of the top 10 most popular governors in the US are Republicans in heavily blue states.  I think that the US is slowly getting fed up with the heavily partisan politics.  The last two years has pushed extremist behavior over the top.  I think we're going to see a wave of cross party candidates (Republicans in blue states and Democrats in red states) winning the elections as the country starts swinging back towards the middle.  And I think that Jealous has no chance of winning MD.  [/quote]

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