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Anonymous wrote:Tonight, it was your friend Ed, the "great leader".

We'll see you on November 6, 2018. Get ready.

As someone left of center, I don't always agree with Gov Hogan, but he hasn't embraced the absolute hate of much of the GOP and there are some areas that I think he has been doing a good job.

How so? How has he been doing a good job?

It really doesn't matter, does it? I don't think anything that can be offered in Hogan's defense will ever convince you. You simply don't like him for whatever reasons. I agree that Hogan has been a solid steward for the state and a decent balance to the Democratic leadership in Annapolis. They seem to get along well enough. He cancelled the transportation projects due to funding concerns, which is sort of understandable as it'd be state taxpayers paying for something most wouldn't have used. There's a lot more to the state outside DC. Not everyone would have agreed, of course, and I'd have preferred if the Red and Purple lines were built, but on the whole I'm fine with Hogan's leadership and will probably vote for him.

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Anonymous wrote:Tonight, it was your friend Ed, the "great leader".

We'll see you on November 6, 2018. Get ready.

Annapolis went completely Blue. The new mayor is a democrat as well as the city council. That area is Hogan's home turf. Cannot wait for him to be booted out as well.

Annapolis has always leaned heavily blue. The city, that is. Rest of AA is Republican. Has nothing to do with Hogan, who actually was originally from PG County and later moved to AA County.

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Anonymous wrote:Tonight, it was your friend Ed, the "great leader".

We'll see you on November 6, 2018. Get ready.

As someone left of center, I don't always agree with Gov Hogan, but he hasn't embraced the absolute hate of much of the GOP and there are some areas that I think he has been doing a good job.

How so? How has he been doing a good job?

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t be so sure about Hogan. If he can keep his moderate views, I predict he will have a tight race but emerge victorious. If he allows Rs to dictate a divisive campaign, he’s toast.

It depends on how much he can make the transvaginal ultrasound and get brown people out wings of his party go away. He's actually done fairly good so far.

Hogan has to be pro abortion with all the social welfare problems in Maryland.

Can you explain what you are talking about, please?

Anonymous wrote:Tonight, it was your friend Ed, the "great leader".

We'll see you on November 6, 2018. Get ready.

Annapolis went completely Blue. The new mayor is a democrat as well as the city council. That area is Hogan's home turf. Cannot wait for him to be booted out as well.

Anonymous wrote:Anthony Brown was a mistake and Maryland learned from it.

There is more than ample democratic fire-power in Maryland to unseat Hogan. When you look at the state's profile, it's tough to see how he repeats. He can't run away from his party fast enough.

As long as the Dems keep recycling the same candidates from the same counties and ignoring the very real concerns of Montgomery and Howard County, Hogan will stay in office.

Anthony Brown was a mistake and Maryland learned from it.

There is more than ample democratic fire-power in Maryland to unseat Hogan. When you look at the state's profile, it's tough to see how he repeats. He can't run away from his party fast enough.

If Hogan wants to have a chance, he needs to leave the GOP and run as an Independent. The "(R)" label is a millstone around his neck.

Anonymous wrote:Tonight, it was your friend Ed, the "great leader".

We'll see you on November 6, 2018. Get ready.

As someone left of center, I don't always agree with Gov Hogan, but he hasn't embraced the absolute hate of much of the GOP and there are some areas that I think he has been doing a good job.

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t be so sure about Hogan. If he can keep his moderate views, I predict he will have a tight race but emerge victorious. If he allows Rs to dictate a divisive campaign, he’s toast.

I agree. I live in MC, MD, and am a moderate Dem. But I might vote for Hogan, despite his Rep ties. I have voted for very few Reps in my lifetime. But I think many of the leading Dem candidates for Governor are too liberal for me. If I vote for Hogan, Annapolis will rein in Hogan somewhat. If a liberal Dem becomes Governor, Annapolis will go off the deep end with too much stupid liberal stuff. Maryland needs to take an aggressive but moderate approach.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t be so sure about Hogan. If he can keep his moderate views, I predict he will have a tight race but emerge victorious. If he allows Rs to dictate a divisive campaign, he’s toast.

+1. I am a left leaning centrist and like most things Hogan stands for. TBH if he ran as independent, not R he would 100% have my vote. Otherwise, right now i am deathly allergic to anybody with (R)

Doesn’t this line of thinking reinforce the type or partisan gridlock we’re trying to stop? This is why the currents are are like these why the current Rs in office are doing little to stop Trump, they know despite what people say in the end they will vote based on the party instead of the candidate. It gives little cover to those who might actually be independent.

Again, I would vote for him if only anybody could identify anything good that he has done please.

The silence is sort of deafening.

On a personal level he survived a particularly gruesome bout of cancer.

So should we resuscitate the conservative response to John McCain's cancer? Should he focus on more "worldly concerns" and go home to spend more time with his family?

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Anonymous wrote:Hogan will try backpedaling to the center after campaigning for Ed. It will be too late. Md dems won't let him run away from it.

Stick a fork in 'em.

That's exactly right. Hogan stayed in the sideline for trump election and showed his true racist color supporting Gillapse. He is done in Maryland. We will not forget!

Hogan did about as much as you could expect from a sitting R governor. Had he openly backed Clinton, folks would be scrambling to primary him as we speak.

But backing Gillespie wasn't a smart move, and it was a risk he really didn't need to take.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t be so sure about Hogan. If he can keep his moderate views, I predict he will have a tight race but emerge victorious. If he allows Rs to dictate a divisive campaign, he’s toast.

+1. I am a left leaning centrist and like most things Hogan stands for. TBH if he ran as independent, not R he would 100% have my vote. Otherwise, right now i am deathly allergic to anybody with (R)

Doesn’t this line of thinking reinforce the type or partisan gridlock we’re trying to stop? This is why the currents are are like these why the current Rs in office are doing little to stop Trump, they know despite what people say in the end they will vote based on the party instead of the candidate. It gives little cover to those who might actually be independent.

The Tea Party taught us that total opposition while in opposition works.

We've also noticed that in the past 20-30 years, the Blue Dog and Rockefeller Republican have both gone extinct.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t be so sure about Hogan. If he can keep his moderate views, I predict he will have a tight race but emerge victorious. If he allows Rs to dictate a divisive campaign, he’s toast.

+1. I am a left leaning centrist and like most things Hogan stands for. TBH if he ran as independent, not R he would 100% have my vote. Otherwise, right now i am deathly allergic to anybody with (R)

Doesn’t this line of thinking reinforce the type or partisan gridlock we’re trying to stop? This is why the currents are are like these why the current Rs in office are doing little to stop Trump, they know despite what people say in the end they will vote based on the party instead of the candidate. It gives little cover to those who might actually be independent.

Again, I would vote for him if only anybody could identify anything good that he has done please.

The silence is sort of deafening.

One could argue he's been a decent steward. In many cases that's all we need from a governor. The state is not going through a crisis, notwithstanding Baltimore which is a dysfunctional mess of its own. MD's economy is robust, MD fiscal status is robust, schools are robust. Is there a cry for change? Some people would certainly demand/want change but ask yourself honesty, if Hogan had a D next to his name and had done the exact same over the past four years, would you be looking for a replacement? Probably not.

If that D governor had cut education funding to my part of the state, aligned himself with a gruesome president, and cut public transportation plans like the red line and purple line, no, I probably would not have voted for him.

And you say MD is not in crisis and then immediately mention that Baltimore is a crisis. What has Hogan done regarding our "crisis?" Anything?

The simple reality is Baltimore is a dysfunctional mess that Annapolis can do little about. I say this as someone who grew up in Baltimore and still loves the city and finds the ongoing problems painful. The State has, over the decades, poured billions into Baltimore with little return. The proposed mass transit link for Baltimore was going to cost far more than it justifiably could return, especially given 99+% of the metro area wouldn't have used the Red Line. Baltimore has deeply entrenched cultural problems that makes it exceedingly difficult for politicians outside the city to do anything about it. O'Malley couldn't do anything and he was a former mayor, as was Schaefer.

I know Maryland politics well enough that there are plenty of hypocritical democrats in the sense that all that matters is the D or R next to the candidate's name and they blindly vote for it. Had Hogan been a D his reelection would be guaranteed. Because he's a R it's probably 50-50. It will likely come down to how furious the Ds in the rest of the state are about Trump (who has nothing to do with Hogan) and how much support he keeps in the Baltimore suburbs (which has little love for Baltimore itself).

Anonymous wrote:Hogan will try backpedaling to the center after campaigning for Ed. It will be too late. Md dems won't let him run away from it.

Stick a fork in 'em.

That's exactly right. Hogan stayed in the sideline for trump election and showed his true racist color supporting Gillapse. He is done in Maryland. We will not forget!