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Anonymous wrote:So glad. Did not want Blair….

You must not want a police department either.

It's going to be a disaster if Elrich wins again. They are 100 officers down. I expect another couple hundred to leave immediately if he wins again.

Sure. They can leave the force and live on their pension. MoCo is a low col area. People can get by with little money and a food forest in their backyard.

No, they are leaving for Howard County, Baltimore County, Capitol Police, Fairfax Police -- everywhere that treats cops better than MoCo. MCPD police are in high demand. They have a national reputation for being some of the best trained police anywhere. Do you know how many have left to become Chiefs elsewhere?

If Blair wins, then they can stabilize their department and be competitive again with these other jurisdictions.
If Elrich wins, expect more police to leave and more crime to seep in.

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Anonymous wrote:So glad. Did not want Blair….

You must not want a police department either.

It's going to be a disaster if Elrich wins again. They are 100 officers down. I expect another couple hundred to leave immediately if he wins again.

Sure. They can leave the force and live on their pension. MoCo is a low col area. People can get by with little money and a food forest in their backyard.

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Anonymous wrote:So glad. Did not want Blair….

You must not want a police department either.

It's going to be a disaster if Elrich wins again. They are 100 officers down. I expect another couple hundred to leave immediately if he wins again.

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Anonymous wrote:Blair trying to purchase election and his huge huge sign at the polling place dwarfing all others did not give me a good vibe.

And the huge huge dwindling numbers of police gives you a good vibe?

I care about public safety. My son was friends with the kid who was shot at Magruder. I care about public safety more than anything right now. but I think most MoCo voters only care about housing and zoning, quite honestly. And that's what will determine the results. Not people getting hurt and killed.

Most MoCo people who vote in the primary probably don't have kids in MCPS. Off-season primary voters tend to be elderly.

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Anonymous wrote:Blair trying to purchase election and his huge huge sign at the polling place dwarfing all others did not give me a good vibe.

And the huge huge dwindling numbers of police gives you a good vibe?

I care about public safety. My son was friends with the kid who was shot at Magruder. I care about public safety more than anything right now. but I think most MoCo voters only care about housing and zoning, quite honestly. And that's what will determine the results. Not people getting hurt and killed.

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Anonymous wrote:So glad. Did not want Blair….

You must not want a police department either.

It's going to be a disaster if Elrich wins again. They are 100 officers down. I expect another couple hundred to leave immediately if he wins again.

Based on what? It's been hard to recruit police officers everywhere. Stop claiming this is particular to MoCo.

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Anonymous wrote:So glad. Did not want Blair….

You must not want a police department either.

It's going to be a disaster if Elrich wins again. They are 100 officers down. I expect another couple hundred to leave immediately if he wins again.

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Anonymous wrote:They just updated, Elrich is up 276.

Meaning the gap has narrowed slightly, which we were told here was impossible!

Yeah, it's like this so far:
Before mail-in counted: Blair by 1,110
Day 1 of maili-in: Blair By 600
Day 2: Elrich by 296
Day 3: Elrich by 276

They can post final counts up to 11pm so we may see another update. No counting tomorrow I believe.

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Anonymous wrote:They just updated, Elrich is up 276.

Meaning the gap has narrowed slightly, which we were told here was impossible!

Yeah, it's like this so far:
Before mail-in counted: Blair by 1,110
Day 1 of maili-in: Blair By 600
Day 2: Elrich by 296
Day 3: Elrich by 276

They can post final counts up to 11pm so we may see another update. No counting tomorrow I believe.

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Anonymous wrote:Blair trying to purchase election and his huge huge sign at the polling place dwarfing all others did not give me a good vibe.

And the huge huge dwindling numbers of police gives you a good vibe?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They just updated, Elrich is up 276.

Meaning the gap has narrowed slightly, which we were told here was impossible!

Anonymous wrote:Blair trying to purchase election and his huge huge sign at the polling place dwarfing all others did not give me a good vibe.

Anonymous wrote:No Repulbican is fit for office period

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Anonymous wrote:Votes are being counted based on when they were received. I think old people are more likely to get their ballot in the day they received it, while working folks may have taken more time (like me.. I was on a business trip when it arrived).

Well, that's my hope at least... I figure older people more likely to vote for Elrich because of his great Covid lockdowns, including keeping public libraries and playgrounds closed while all surrounding jurisdictions had already reopened them.

Elrich was always expected to do well with the mail-in vote. It is a demographic that generally trends older which favors him. What was unexpected is how well he would do.

It is pretty clear at this stage that Elrich will win. The only question will be the margin of victory.

Hans Riemer should be ashamed of himself.

Not yet, let's give it a few more days. If the trend continues, then yes. But his percentage of votes was lower with yesterday's count than it was from Thursday's.

The idea that Blair is going to make up votes among the remaining mail-in and provisional ballots is far fetched. The mail-in voter population is not representative of the county as a whole.

You can't say that after everyone was forced to vote mail in last time, during COVID. We are used to it now. And the unprecedented number of mail in ballots shows that.

And you can't say that when the election was pushed into mid-July, during the height of vacation season, when many people had pre-booked vacations and have no choice other than to vote by mail in.

This year is not like every other year. At all.

It remains absolutely true that mail-in voters continue to trend older. The pandemic did not change that.

In fact, applying your own reasoning, the county making it easier to vote by mail may have increased the voting participation of older voters.

Show me proof. Otherwise, it's conjecture.

Denial is a river in Africa.

I have zero time for people who don't work with data and evidence.