Maryland Politics Watch

The Baltimore Sun published an interesting editorial this week entitled "A Reality Check" about the challenges facing the entire s...

The Washington Post has posted excerpts from Bob Woodward's new book. I found the whole article another devastating indictment of this ...

The world of blogs and blogging is so new that the word "blog" is not in the spell check dictionary for Blogger.com. It wants to ...

The O'Malley and Ehrlich campaigns have reached an agreement to hold two televised debates in October. The Baltimore Sun is reporting t...

Since I am now in control of this media empire, I thought it would be interesting over the next few days to share some stories about being a...

As noted by David in his previous posting , I have volunteered to keep the blog jumping while he spreads American democracy around the world...

I'm getting ready to head out of town. The Department of State has kindly invited your gentle blogger to speak about the upcoming midter...

The governor is making a major push for his supporters to vote by absentee ballot . Not a bad way to rack up votes in advance of the electio...

The House of Representatives approved legislation on the treatment of detainees on a 253 to 168 vote. The entire Maryland delegation voted...

I was pleased to read in the Gazette that the Montgomery County Board of Elections has begun retraining election judges: On the list is a c...

Read about it in the Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun .

Democrat Peter Franchot leads Republican Anne McCarthy by 54 to 29 in the race to become the state's next comptroller according to the ...

State Sen. John Gianetti (District 21) jumped to the Republicans today after being creamed in the Democratic primary by former Del. Jim Ros...

Racial tensions have risen in Charles County as more and more prosperous black families settle there. Fortunately, it sounds as if the pol...

Even before the new council members who are more critical of development take office, development is slowing in Montgomery. The lead story ...

The DSCC has released a great ad replying to Steele's puppy ad. I like it. The new commercial shows a sense of humor even as it relent...

The Washington Post reports the far from earth-shattering news that a developer gave money to a politician, Gov. Bob Ehrlich in this case. ...

On primary day, I reported that the electronic voter check-in system, called e-poll books, crashed and had to be rebooted when I went to v...

The Baltimore Sun polled the race for attorney general in addition to the senatorial and gubernatorial contests. Democrat Doug Gansler l...

The Baltimore Sun has let the other shoe drop from its poll of Marylanders and the news is that Ben Cardin leads Michael Steele by 11 perce...

It sounds like a good idea and has even led MocoPolitics to give kudos to Ehrlich for being right on this one but a last-minute switch to p...

On Sunday, the Baltimore Sun ran a story with the strange headline "Governor's race tight: Poll shows O'Malley holding a sligh...

The Washington Post reports on how problems in training undercut the security of the election and slowed the compilation of the election re...

No surprises now that the final tally is in from the primary elections in Montgomery and Prince George's Counties, though I still can...

I've been invited to go doorknocking for the Democratic Coordinated Campaign on Rosh Hashanah. I'm not offended by the invitation (...

The Gazette reports that Senate Minority Leader J. Lowell Stoltzfus (R-Somerset) plans to step down as Senate Minority Leader when the Gen...

According to a member of the Montgomery County Board of Elections, 10,059 out of around 11,700 provisional ballots were counted by Friday af...

The Washington Post reports that the National Black Republican Association is running radio ads saying that Democrats "passed those b...

According to Laura Vozella's column in the Baltimore Sun , Bob Ehrlich is claiming that Senate President Mike Miller and House Speaker M...

Developer Leo Bruso has accused Senate President Mike Miller (D-Calvert) of slugging him with a punch to the jaw as he left a Prince George...

OK, it wasn't mind-bogglingly original even when I said it . However, the idea that people should vote by absentee ballot makes sense ...

Two sets of polls were released on September 20th by SurveyUSA and Rasmussen on the senatorial and gubernatorial races in Maryland. The res...

Maryland may have faulty voting machines but it fortunately also has no-fault absentee voting. This means that anyone can request and vote ...

During the 2002 gubernatorial campaign, Bob Ehrlich presented himself as a nice, pleasant suburbanite. When I watched the 2002 debate at Mo...

Montgomery County is still counting the ballots but Dan Farrington just sent out the following email to his supporters: I am humbled and ho...

The blame game is in full swing about the election fiasco . As a result, I am increasingly concerned that the actual issues critical to car...

Maryland starts counting provisional ballots today , including the 12,000 or so provisional ballots cast in Montgomery. Can anyone explain w...

The Women's Suburban Democratic Club Kiss and Make-Up at the Chevy Chase Holiday Inn attracted more winners than losers to its event on...

Adam Pagnucco is a leader in the fight for a pedestrian tunnel under Georgia Ave. at Forest Glen and had the following take on the primary e...

The following is an excerpt from a gracious letter from Kensington Councilman Al Carr , who fell short in his bid to become a delegate this ...

Lisa Handley, a friend and expert on organizing elections, pointed out to me a major problem regarding last Tuesday's primary which has ...

Del. Rich Madaleno , the District 18 Democratic nominee for Senate, received the following in his email this morning: The truth about homose...

We had major problems with elections in Montgomery last Tuesday--and this was just the primary in which only a small number of voters partic...

The Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA) was unquestionably one of the big winners in Tuesday's primary. All but three of the...

The Washington Post reports today: Because of the voting problems, Montgomery officials distributed up to 12,000 provisional paper ballots ...

Del. Maggie McIntosh (District 43) and Del. Anne Kaiser (District 14), the two openly lesbian candidates who sought reelection, easily won t...

Overall, last night was not a great for woman and minority candidates. Ike Leggett's victory was a rare bright spot. Stu Simms and Kwe...

As you all undoubtedly know, Montgomery's returns are imcomplete right now, so take the following as a preliminary summary of the state ...