Maryland Politics Watch

Five top-tier candidates ran in the 2006 Council At-Large primary: incumbents George Leventhal, Nancy Floreen and Mike Subin and labor-backe...

Conventional wisdom holds that voters of color do not turn out at the same rate as white voters. How true is that in Montgomery County? As ...

As we saw in Part One, MoCo’s major demographic groups are not distributed evenly across the county. Here are the percentages of Hispanics,...

Like many of you, we are eagerly entering the precinct-level counts from the recent primary. (OK, we know that not all of you are on the ed...

With Jane de Winter and Fred Evans reporting dismal fundraising numbers , there are only two at-large challengers with a shot to win: Becky ...

Council Member Nancy Floreen finished fourth in the 2006 at-large Democratic primary. What does that mean this year? First, some basic stat...

Council Member Duchy Trachtenberg finished third in the 2006 at-large Democratic primary. What does that mean this year? First, some basic ...

Council Member Marc Elrich finished second in the 2006 at-large Democratic primary. What does that mean this year? First, some basic statis...

Council Member George Leventhal finished first in the 2006 at-large Democratic primary. What does that mean this year? First, some basic st...

The bottom line in any election is who wins and who loses. We’re not ready to make that call for 2010, but we know in excruciating detail h...

MCEA’s Apple Ballot had a lot of success in 2006, beating both the Post and Gazette endorsements on win rate in contested races . What impa...

Today, we look at turnout in the 2006 primary and ponder how it might be different this year. Following is 2006 primary turnout for all vote...

With County Executive Ike Leggett running unopposed in September and no chance of primary upsets in the races for Governor, U.S. Senator or ...