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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the website of the 2022 Republican county council candidate for Silver Spring’s district. Any more questions about why she lost?

https://www.cherylriley4moco.com/[/quote]

The new downtown Silver Spring-Kensington-North Bethesda district. She got 6,119 votes (12.43%), and yes, if county Republicans want to start winning elections, they need to stop running candidates like this.[/quote]
The actual reason a Republican can never win is because the Democrats keep gerrymandering the Council District maps to prevent that from happening. If there was a District that spanned the border of the county with Frederick county as Republicans have requested, from Potomac to Poolesville to Clarksburg to Damascus, a Republican candidate would actually have a strong chance of winning which would encroach better Republican candidates to run. Aside from crazy people, who’s going to waste their time in futility.[/quote]

Even if the county gerrymandered a district as affirmative action for Republicans, the Republican candidate still wouldn't have enough Republican votes. To win, any Republican candidate would have to get a lot of crossover votes from Democrats, and to do that, the Republican candidate would have to be, well, not a Republican candidate.

Marilyn Balcombe, a non-incumbent, won the open District 2 seat in November with 72% of the votes. Dawn Luedtke, also a non-incumbent, won the open district 7 seat with 67% of the votes. The margins aren't even close.

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I happen to really like both those councilmembers, but I am VERY disappointed in upcounty voters in general.  They always have the lowest turnout, and they have similar registered numbers as different parts of down county.   If they had a large turnout each election, they could effect the type of change they want (and that might be contrary to my own interests, but at least it would reflect the will of the residents).  [/quote]

That's Marilyn Balcombe's point, no? Stop wasting time complaining about Takoma Park and start working on get out the vote.

Even with get out the vote, though, there's no way to draw a geographic boundary where a generic Republican candidate would even come close to winning, let alone an actual Republican candidate. The only way to do it would be to require a Republican seat on the County Council, like there are two required non-Democratic seats on the Planning Board. Or for the county, state, and national Republican party to become something other than what they currently are.[/quote]
Republican turnout is much lower for primary and off year general elections than in Presidential year general elections. A big reason why that is is because most Republicans believe there is no point in voting because their votes don’t matter for local elections. That’s a correct belief given the gerrymandered districts. However when motivated to vote for President, they come out in much larger numbers due to enthusiasm. The PP is also incorrect in stating that there would not be many cross-over Democratic votes for a Republican in Montgomery County. A map of precincts that Hogan won should dispel that notion. A Larry Hogan/Connie Morella style Republican could easily still win a local election but let’s not forget that this is Maryland and despite the progressive pretenses the political power in this county would never allow that to happen. [/quote]

There's always an explanation that doesn't involve the actual explanation, which is that the voters don't want what you're offering. :roll:

There are no more Connie Morella style Republicans. You got rid of them. If you think a Larry Hogan style Republican could win an election, then find a Larry Hogan style Republican and persuade them to run.[/quote]

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