Friday, February 08, 2008

Latest Wynn-Edwards News

We are into GOTV (Get Out The Vote) weekend and here is some of the latest news from the leading candidates.

This is a robo call sent out on behind of Congressman Wynn. It comes from Open Left's Matt Stoller, who is a supporter of challenger Donna Edwards. Still the robo call undercuts Wynn's argument that he is running a positive campaign.

Baltimore Sun is running an article from UMBC Professor Schaller that dovetails with Stoller's comments. The end of Schaller's comments he calls for the voting Wynn out of office.

From the WaPo blog, Sen. Mikulski is staying out of the race citing her focus on Hillary.

Also from the WaPo, Donna Edwards has endorsed Obama. Wynn endorsed Obama back in mid-January. This confirms that Obama is solidly ahead of Clinton in the DC burbs. Expect both sides to hand out palm cards linking their candidate with Obama.

Of course MPW's own Adam Pagnucco commented on the local elected officials who are endorsing Wynn. It is an impressive list. This also originated in the WaPo blog. Among the comments on their site was an interesting point made by someone known as "lefty". He/she, based on previous comments, is pro-Donna. So take that as you may but the point made was that WaPo reporter, Roz Helderman, headlines the blog piece with a majority of the electeds were there for Wynn. Not true. Wynn has an impressive list of endorsements but it is still not a majority of either delegation.

This race is so close that whomever gets out the GOTV wins. Not that's obvious but so many races are not close coming into GOTV weekend. This one is.