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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pipe dream.

R's had a chance to retain governorship if Rutherford decided to run, but he declined. He has name recognition. People like Schulz do not.

At the senator/representative level, a lot of voters don't care and just vote for whoever has a (D) next to their name.

At MoCo level, Blair is the best chance. I think you may be right on that one.

[b]Also remember that the "woke liberal" types votes a lot.[/b] Most people don't, or they do but dont' follow politics closely. People bringing up little things like Hogan voting for Reagan -- the majority of voters have no idea about this, and probably don't care.

It's this apathy why school board races never see much upheaval. Too many voters don't know or care. They just vote for the incumbent.[/quote]

Really, what makes you say this? I'm not challenging just curious. All I've heard about 'woke liberal' voting patterns is how the predictured surge of progressive Bernie Bros failed to show up at the polls in primary season. [/quote]

I think they call it the "Takoma Park Triangle" or somethign like that. So much of MoCo politics is decided by the people living in Takoma Park and Silver Spring. Look at all the at-large Council members -- all from that area. Same with our County Exec. Same with our House member (Raskin). The residents there get heavily involved in local politics, and they vote too.

There was an effort on the last ballot (Nine Districts MoCo) to get rid of at-large districts in the county council, and instead have each seat be for a particular area . It would ensure the growing areas of the county (upcounty, like Clarskburg and Germantown) get fair representation. Well the Council didn't like that, so they added their own ballot question to instead add more seats (district-based) but keep their at-large seats too. Then, since they control the ballot they put their question before the Nine Districts question, even though Nine Districts submitted first. I doubt the Council would have done anything if not for Nine Districts raising the issue and actually getting it on the ballot.

I guess on the plus side, upcounty _will_ get more representation, but at-large seats will still remain in the Takoma Park Triangle.[/quote]

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