Anonymous wrote:I am not a troll and I’m different from the other people posting - no sock puppet. I am a moderate democrat who has zero time for the maga idiots but really, really hate being condescended to by the far left. And I like Hogan! (Fwiw, I also defended Daley when I lived in Chicago- he represented me well and my republican relatives there hated me for it). I vote local and I think Hogan did a good job for me - as a Marylander. I like Raskin too. But not Elrich. Voters like me- prob schizophrenic seeming- exist and we hate being told we suck by people like you.

Anonymous wrote:I am not a troll and I’m different from the other people posting - no sock puppet. I am a moderate democrat who has zero time for the maga idiots but really, really hate being condescended to by the far left. And I like Hogan! (Fwiw, I also defended Daley when I lived in Chicago- he represented me well and my republican relatives there hated me for it). I vote local and I think Hogan did a good job for me - as a Marylander. I like Raskin too. But not Elrich. Voters like me- prob schizophrenic seeming- exist and we hate being told we suck by people like you.

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Anonymous wrote:The DMV political spectrum goes something like this, from left to right:

Kristin Mink - extreme left
Marc Elrich - far left
Jamie Raskin - left
Wes Moore - mainstream Dem
David Blair - center-left
Abigail Spanberger - true center
Larry Hogan - center-right
Glenn Youngkin - establishment Republican
Winsome Sears - establishment/MAGA
Andy Harris - full MAGA

I’m not as familiar with VA Republican politics but SW Virginia GOP would be pretty MAGA.

Anyways the sweet spot is between Moore and Hogan. We need more of them, and more David Blairs and Abigail Spanbergers and fewer Kristin Minks.

I am sincerely laughing at the idea that Kristin Mink and Marc Elrich are far left. I guess I missed where they called for nationalizing the means of production?

And Jamie Raskin is as mainstream a Democrat as they come.

Have you ever read anything at all about Kristin Mink? She makes AOC (who I like, even if I don’t always agree with her) seem like Reagan.

Plus, AOC is smart.

Not only have I read about her, I have talked with her and worked with her. The obsessive hatred of Kristin Mink among the on-line right-wing trolls in Montgomery County says a lot about the on-line right-wing trolls in Montgomery County, but nothing about Kristin Mink.

Anonymous wrote:I am an independent and have no plan to vote right as long as you worship orange god.

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Anonymous wrote:The DMV political spectrum goes something like this, from left to right:

Kristin Mink - extreme left
Marc Elrich - far left
Jamie Raskin - left
Wes Moore - mainstream Dem
David Blair - center-left
Abigail Spanberger - true center
Larry Hogan - center-right
Glenn Youngkin - establishment Republican
Winsome Sears - establishment/MAGA
Andy Harris - full MAGA

I’m not as familiar with VA Republican politics but SW Virginia GOP would be pretty MAGA.

Anyways the sweet spot is between Moore and Hogan. We need more of them, and more David Blairs and Abigail Spanbergers and fewer Kristin Minks.

I am sincerely laughing at the idea that Kristin Mink and Marc Elrich are far left. I guess I missed where they called for nationalizing the means of production?

And Jamie Raskin is as mainstream a Democrat as they come.

Have you ever read anything at all about Kristin Mink? She makes AOC (who I like, even if I don’t always agree with her) seem like Reagan.

Plus, AOC is smart.

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Anonymous wrote:The DMV political spectrum goes something like this, from left to right:

Kristin Mink - extreme left
Marc Elrich - far left
Jamie Raskin - left
Wes Moore - mainstream Dem
David Blair - center-left
Abigail Spanberger - true center
Larry Hogan - center-right
Glenn Youngkin - establishment Republican
Winsome Sears - establishment/MAGA
Andy Harris - full MAGA

I’m not as familiar with VA Republican politics but SW Virginia GOP would be pretty MAGA.

Anyways the sweet spot is between Moore and Hogan. We need more of them, and more David Blairs and Abigail Spanbergers and fewer Kristin Minks.

I am sincerely laughing at the idea that Kristin Mink and Marc Elrich are far left. I guess I missed where they called for nationalizing the means of production?

And Jamie Raskin is as mainstream a Democrat as they come.

Anonymous wrote:The DMV political spectrum goes something like this, from left to right:

Kristin Mink - extreme left
Marc Elrich - far left
Jamie Raskin - left
Wes Moore - mainstream Dem
David Blair - center-left
Abigail Spanberger - true center
Larry Hogan - center-right
Glenn Youngkin - establishment Republican
Winsome Sears - establishment/MAGA
Andy Harris - full MAGA

I’m not as familiar with VA Republican politics but SW Virginia GOP would be pretty MAGA.

Anyways the sweet spot is between Moore and Hogan. We need more of them, and more David Blairs and Abigail Spanbergers and fewer Kristin Minks.

Anonymous wrote:DP. You can feel free to report, but that “sock puppet” wasn’t me. Again, your quest to find that anyone who disagrees with you in good faith, must be trolling? Is the attitude that may hand Hogan the election. Again, I don’t WANT the senate to flip republican, and Hogan to win. But I’m so frustrated with other democrats (oh no, lowercase!) who stick their heads in the sand and assume every single person not 100% in lockstep with is some gop covert operative.

Anonymous wrote:The DMV political spectrum goes something like this, from left to right:

Kristin Mink - extreme left
Marc Elrich - far left
Jamie Raskin - left
Wes Moore - mainstream Dem
David Blair - center-left
Abigail Spanberger - true center
Larry Hogan - center-right
Glenn Youngkin - establishment Republican
Winsome Sears - establishment/MAGA
Andy Harris - full MAGA

I’m not as familiar with VA Republican politics but SW Virginia GOP would be pretty MAGA.

Anyways the sweet spot is between Moore and Hogan. We need more of them, and more David Blairs and Abigail Spanbergers and fewer Kristin Minks.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a democrat and while I don’t want a ‘red wave’ (I’m voting for Harris & Alsobrooks, since I don’t want the Senate to flip), I don’t know what other options I have anymore for local politics.

Schools overcrowded and standards rapidly declining, taxes continuing to rise with no real accountability (I haven’t forgotten the $14m electric buses debacle in MoCo), cramming through zoning changes by handwaving away real concerns … in pursuit of equity and inclusivity, we have lost the plot.

I’m anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-homophobia with the best of MoCo citizens. I want people to be safe and welcome in our community. I’m also tired of elected officials telling me I’m “-ist” for asking why kids aren’t learning to read, pointing out no research has been done by the MoCo Planning Committee on infrastructure effects of upzoning, and being tired of being told that the uptick in crime isn’t real, since it ‘was worse in the 90s.’

I feel like I'm in upside down land. I’m at the point where, if I could find a legitimate moderate republican candidate who is pro-choice, I’d be voting for him/her. I can’t be the only democrat feeling this way? If it weren’t for the GOP’s backwards views on abortion and gun control, I’d be voting Harris/Hogan, frankly.

You are in the same position that many of us are at this point. We are left leaning democrats, even liberals, trying to navigate local politics run by progressives. Who we voted for locally (the MOCO council, for example) turned out to be beholden to progressives, and they are quite happy to sell us out for the progressive cred that they hope will move them up. In the meantime, we are stuck hoping that their success fails them up and away.

As a country we want to drag the Overton window to the left, but it’s quite far enough left already in Montgomery County. So, of course, the progressives screech that we are pro Republican or something just as silly.

There it is again. Now you're sock-puppeting. I'm reporting this one.

Anonymous wrote:I’m a democrat and while I don’t want a ‘red wave’ (I’m voting for Harris & Alsobrooks, since I don’t want the Senate to flip), I don’t know what other options I have anymore for local politics.

Schools overcrowded and standards rapidly declining, taxes continuing to rise with no real accountability (I haven’t forgotten the $14m electric buses debacle in MoCo), cramming through zoning changes by handwaving away real concerns … in pursuit of equity and inclusivity, we have lost the plot.

I’m anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-homophobia with the best of MoCo citizens. I want people to be safe and welcome in our community. I’m also tired of elected officials telling me I’m “-ist” for asking why kids aren’t learning to read, pointing out no research has been done by the MoCo Planning Committee on infrastructure effects of upzoning, and being tired of being told that the uptick in crime isn’t real, since it ‘was worse in the 90s.’

I feel like I'm in upside down land. I’m at the point where, if I could find a legitimate moderate republican candidate who is pro-choice, I’d be voting for him/her. I can’t be the only democrat feeling this way? If it weren’t for the GOP’s backwards views on abortion and gun control, I’d be voting Harris/Hogan, frankly.