Anonymous wrote:I was going to vote for Reimer but now I'm considering Elrich. Is it going to be a close election, Elrich vs Blair? I'm certainly not voting Blair. What a disaster. He should just be a Republican.

Yes, it appears Elrich vs Blair will be close.

Anonymous wrote:The only reason to vote for Riemer is if you want Elrich to win but you yearn for the exclusivity of voting for the third-place candidate and maybe feel some kind of weird moral superiority.

Another reason to vote for Riemer is if you want continued Takoma Park control over county government but want to feel superior than voting Elrich.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, what's wrong with him? I like him. What am I missing?

Everything Riemer claims as a top priority has gotten worse since he’s been in office, especially housing. He talks a lot and says a lot of nice sounding things but he’s been an abysmal failure as a legislator.

“Says nice things?” He speaks so inarticulately that all of his campaign speeches are some form of “c’mon guys”.

Fair point. New poll has Riemer in an even more distant third.

https://twitter.com/DataProgress/status/1548012096096391168

It really is a two-way race between Blair and Elrich.

Jeebus. At least he’s now leading “undecided” but the idea that he thought undecided would break for him is honkers. People in Montgomery County hate negative campaigns. They’ve never worked in the 2 decades that I’ve lived here. Riemer is an idiot thinking that he would win going negative. What’s more and as many people have pointed out, he went negative because he couldn’t run on his record. Good riddance.

Riemer’s unfavorables doubled, and you’re right that it’s probably because of his negativity.

The only reason to vote for Riemer is if you want Elrich to win but you yearn for the exclusivity of voting for the third-place candidate and maybe feel some kind of weird moral superiority.

I like Elrich as a person (I've met him) but I thikn he's a horrible manager. His previous non-political experience was as a schoolteacher. Then 20 years on the county council until he got term-limited out. During that time, he never made president of the council -- shows what his peers thought of him. So if you like the way the county has gone the last 24 years, you should probably vote Elrich.

He's great at always blaming everyone else -- the governor, the council, the president .. you name it.. for any issue. He's never a "buck stops here" kind of guy.

Here you can see Elrich taking credit yesterday for a project he voted against while on the Council:

I voted Blair.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, what's wrong with him? I like him. What am I missing?

Everything Riemer claims as a top priority has gotten worse since he’s been in office, especially housing. He talks a lot and says a lot of nice sounding things but he’s been an abysmal failure as a legislator.

“Says nice things?” He speaks so inarticulately that all of his campaign speeches are some form of “c’mon guys”.

Fair point. New poll has Riemer in an even more distant third.

https://twitter.com/DataProgress/status/1548012096096391168

It really is a two-way race between Blair and Elrich.

Jeebus. At least he’s now leading “undecided” but the idea that he thought undecided would break for him is honkers. People in Montgomery County hate negative campaigns. They’ve never worked in the 2 decades that I’ve lived here. Riemer is an idiot thinking that he would win going negative. What’s more and as many people have pointed out, he went negative because he couldn’t run on his record. Good riddance.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, what's wrong with him? I like him. What am I missing?

Everything Riemer claims as a top priority has gotten worse since he’s been in office, especially housing. He talks a lot and says a lot of nice sounding things but he’s been an abysmal failure as a legislator.

“Says nice things?” He speaks so inarticulately that all of his campaign speeches are some form of “c’mon guys”.

Fair point. New poll has Riemer in an even more distant third.

https://twitter.com/DataProgress/status/1548012096096391168

It really is a two-way race between Blair and Elrich.

This is a fascinating poll. The one they released July 7 had Elrich blowing Blair away. With a 20+ point lead. If they used the same methodology, that’s truly significant.