Martin O'Malley Tells His Own Story

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who spent 2012 as a top White House surrogate telling an upbeat story about President Barack Obama’s record, has turned his attention to pushing a different story: his own.

In public speeches and private remarks, O’Malley has begun to lay out a more assertive case for himself as a national leader in the Democratic Party, a narrative anchored in his Maryland record and in the state’s performance during a deep national recession.

While O’Malley has done nothing to discourage widespread speculation that he’s very seriously eyeing a 2016 presidential run, he faces long odds and a Rubik’s Cube of political complications — starting with the prospect of a potentially field-clearing bid by either outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or Vice President Joe Biden.
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