Washington Times Editorial

Andy Harris gains momentum

THE WASHINGTON TIMES EDITORIAL

January 27, 2008

Things are not looking very good these days for Wayne Gilchrest, the liberal Republican incumbent who has represented Maryland's 1st Congressional District for 16 years. Mr. Gilchrest will be hardpressed to fend off a very difficult primary challenge in this Republican-leaning district mounted by state Sen. Andy Harris, a conservative from Baltimore County, who leads Mr. Gilchrest according to a newly released poll. In 1998, Mr. Harris won election to the state Senate by defeating a moderate/liberal incumbent in the Republican primary, and a decade later he's got a decent chance to do the same thing again: to topple Mr. Gilchrest, a veteran politician who has been drifting well to the left of his moderate-to-conservative district.

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