The presidential candidates once again showered Virginia with attention Friday, with President Obama speaking at George Mason University and Mitt Romney appearing in Abingdon.
But Maryland, with its solid Democratic base that outnumbers Republicans 2 to 1, isn't just missing out on attention.
Political experts tell the Gazette that Maryland is missing out on the money spent by campaigns, including travel revenue from campaign workers and journalists and advertising dollars.
Its the same story in Delaware too. I think its time, in this day and age of instant communications, to get rid of the electoral college and have a national popular election where the one who wins is the one who gets the most votes. Also, primaries should be held all on one day nationally. Those of us in Delaware have no say because the nominees are already decided before we get to vote.
ReplyDelete12:53 no i think maybe this state is so liberal and blue that it is a waste of time for anyone to campaign here. maybe what we need to do is get rid of mikulski and cardin and fine real representatives
ReplyDeleteAlso may be the reason for the Daily Times article today by Caitlin Johnson. When Democrats out number Republicans two to one, the Democrats find it completly unnecessary to perpatrate fraud.
ReplyDeletethe only ads I see are for the incumbents. It's as though they're running unopposed. Is comcast in the tank for the dems?
ReplyDelete12:53, If we got rid of the electorial college than the most populated areas such as the east cost corridor (boston, NY NY, Philly, Balto, and DC and suburbs) and the LA, CA would end up deciding the elections for everyone. The Founding Fathers foresaw this as a possibility and took this measure to prevent this. A few presidents have been declared winners after not receiving the popular vote, the most recent GW Bush in 2000.
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