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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is Montgomery County taking a rightward turn, or is it just the demographics of this forum?

MoCo elected Jamie Raskin, and Marc Elrich won the most votes out of the last three Council races, and Anthony Brown won MoCo pretty handily in 2014, and Trump won less than 20% of the vote.

And yet from perusing this particular forum, I get a sense that people are more fiscally moderate/conservative while socially liberal. A lot of Hogan/Floreen voters it seems.

FWIW, I have no dog in this fight, I live in Chevy Chase DC. 
I just wonder out of curiosity if something in particular made this rightward turn, or if it is just this DCUM demographic. [/quote]

The left has been moving further and further left and, in this particular election, the right is pretty centrist.  That leaves a lot of people crossing over, particularly someone who is in a family with two adults working full-time who, collectively make a solid living, but hardly feel that they are "rich" and should be viewed as a never ending piggy bank.[/quote]

Chevy Chase DC poster here - so who voted for Raskin in the 8th district and Elrich in the council elections? From what I observe as an outsider, and morseo in the 2018 county Executive primary than the 2016 congressional primary, but still more or less the case - it seems like the left wing candidates won pluralities against multiple more moderate candidates. But the left wing candidates seem to have significant support. Who makes up the left wing contingent of Montgomery County, and why? Where do they stand against hte moderate Democrats or liberal Republicans?

Didn't Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders by a significant margin? That would suggest that if evenly matched - one moderate candidate versus one leftwing candidate - the moderate would win, no? Although I think Nancy Floreen faces a major disadvantage by not being a Democrat, as many voters are probably not paying attention to local elections so much and will just vote against the Party of Trump at any cost. But then, maybe she will have an advantage being a woman. 
From what I hear, Maryland Democrats I know appear to have lost respect for her and resent her for a "spoiler campaign." [/quote]

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