Does Hogan Really Have a Chance? (visit, football, Wednesday)

[westsideboy]

Unbelievable. Yup, Nate Silver was wrong, big time. You could feel the energy surrounding Hogan, and none surrounding Brown, but I still didn't think it would be enough. Those who come out to vote decide the election though.

At any rate, I want to thank all DEMs and INDs that were willing to cross party lines and consider the state of the State, and the resumes of the two candidates when voting.

[Missingatlanta]

Originally Posted by Trace21230

Foolishness?

Calendars / 2014-15 Month by Month

I never in my life, through 20 years of schooling, had a school day off because of election day. But, that's the case for Baltimore City Public Schools. And many other core Democrat constituencies like labor unions and government workers.

So I grew up in Ga a Republican state and we always had election day off. Feds didn't have yesterday off.

[Dequindre]

Originally Posted by westsideboy

Unbelievable. Yup, Nate Silver was wrong, big time. You could feel the energy surrounding Hogan, and none surrounding Brown, but I still didn't think it would be enough. Those who come out to vote decide the election though.

At any rate, I want to thank all DEMs and INDs that were willing to cross party lines and consider the state of the State, and the resumes of the two candidates when voting.

Nate Silver was wrong in a lot of races last night, big time.

[Tinawina]

Originally Posted by K-Luv

Brown's entire campaign was about nothing more than: "I'm the Democratic candidate. Of course I am going to win, duh." I bet there are many, many, people who would have voted for Brown but stayed home instead believing their man had the easy win anyways, so they could just sit home and watch TV. Also, Baltimore City's turnout was rather pathetic considering the size of its population. Roughly 15% of Baltimore City went out to vote. If 30% of the City went out to vote, and surely that is still a low percentage of total population, Brown could have won.

I agree with this. At no point did I see even the slightest excitement around Anthony Brown. He never came off as anything other than fake and entitled. Lots of people would have voted for him by default if they had gone to the pools, but they were not passionate enough about him to bother and assumed he'd win anyway because he's the Democrat and it's Maryland. Meanwhile, people who were fed up with the previous' Governor's tax happy ways WERE fired up, and they are the one who turned out.

So now we have Hogan, who's just as uninspiring as Brown IMO but he had the benefit of not being the bland Democrat connected to the Governor no one really likes.

We'll see what he does. I don't predict much since the state congress is still full of hardcore democrat lifers and they will do what they want regardless. He'll probably enjoy being a star on a national level for a minute before he inevitably gets kicked out next cycle.

[CoolZombie]

Originally Posted by Trace21230

Foolishness?

Calendars / 2014-15 Month by Month

I never in my life, through 20 years of schooling, had a school day off because of election day. But, that's the case for Baltimore City Public Schools. And many other core Democrat constituencies like labor unions and government workers.

You should've held out thru 25 years and you might have gotten thru 10th grade. People always vote at schools, sad you have to make stuff up.

[Quick Enough]

Originally Posted by CoolZombie

Not really, no. The people of MD haven't been dumb enough to elect a hard right winger state wide in my lifetime so I wouldn't count on it.

How does that crow taste?

[westsideboy]

Originally Posted by CoolZombie

You should've held out thru 25 years and you might have gotten thru 10th grade. People always vote at schools, sad you have to make stuff up.

No, they don't. In Allegany County, we have polling places in churches, multi-purpose community buildings, and fire halls, lots of fire halls, among other places. And we have many schools that aren't used as polling places. Some schools are, some aren't.

It must have been a REALLY bad night in zombie land.

[Sunflowery]

I'm still somewhat upset about Heather Mizeur losing the primaries. I voted for her in the primaries.

[tmsterp]

Originally Posted by K-Luv

Brown's entire campaign was about nothing more than: "I'm the Democratic candidate. Of course I am going to win, duh." I bet there are many, many, people who would have voted for Brown but stayed home instead believing their man had the easy win anyways, so they could just sit home and watch TV. Also, Baltimore City's turnout was rather pathetic considering the size of its population. Roughly 15% of Baltimore City went out to vote. If 30% of the City went out to vote, and surely that is still a low percentage of total population, Brown could have won.

I agree that Hogan didn't get many votes from liberals, hence his dismal showing in MoCo (though he did better than most Republicans). I think turnout is part of it, it was 5 points lower this election than in 2010, and that primarily came from Montgomery County, and to some degree Baltimore city. PG Cointy was slightly lower too. That being said, even if turnout was 5 points higher, thus equaling the 2010 turnout, brown could have won every single one of those votes and still lost the election. The biggest factor was the perception that Brown was a lackluster candidate. I honestly think the far more liberal Heather Mizeur might have beaten Hogan. Or at least had a better shot at it. Hogan ran an incredible campaign and had exactly the right message. Brown tried to paint him like Ted Cruz and voters just didn't buy it. Turnout was a factor, but there were a lot of factors. It was a perfect storm

[uggabugga]

Originally Posted by Quick Enough

How does that crow taste?

lol

zombies are supposed to eat brains, but I think this one might enjoy crow.