It’s after Labor Day, and two more Democratic candidates for governor are formally joining the race this week: Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz gets in Monday, with a rally in front of the county courthouse in Towson, and former Obama administration official Krishanti Vignarajah enters Tuesday, with an appearance at her childhood home in Baltimore.
So it seems like a good time to size up the seven-candidate Democratic field.
What’s noteworthy about this race is how there isn’t a true frontrunner. Most election cycles, one Democrat seems way ahead – or has been pre-selected by party leaders, or both.
By the normal metrics of Maryland politics, Kamenetz and Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker should be the favorites for the Democratic nomination. They’re veteran officeholders in large, important jurisdictions, with solid records, good stories to tell, and a lifetime of relationships with party elders.
But let’s face it: They aren’t all that well known – even to party activists, let alone to average voters. When it comes to laying the groundwork for a statewide campaign, each has traveled the state some – but far less, it seems, than most successful gubernatorial contenders have at similar stages of past elections. Each county executive has flaws and skeptics – and critics at home.
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6 comments:
Not big fan of Hogan but as a FORMER life long family of democrats WE WILL never vote democrat again.
(D) is no longer a passing grade!
Kevin Kamanetz is a freaking creepy idiot, but then again, he IS a Democrat.
Baker? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Not big fan of Hogan but as a FORMER life long family of democrats WE WILL never vote democrat again.
September 19, 2017 at 10:37 PM:
But are you a card carrying Republican, that can vote for Hogan in the next primary? If you, and other FORMER Democrat voters like you, have not taken the leap and joined the Republican party, you all are going to be the reason that Hogan loses. Unless you, a democrat that LIKES how Hogan has governed in his first term as Governor, can vote in the Republican primary, you will have no say in his quest to get on the ballot for a second term. Only Republicans will decide that, and the ones that supported his first bid in the Republican primary for governor, are not nearly as enthusiastic in support for a second bid, based on his performance in his fist term. He has supported more of the democrat agenda, that the Republican one he was chosen for. If you are still a REGISTERED Democrat, your support of Hogan is meaningless.
The only way Hogan gets on the ballot the second time around is if no one challenges him in the primary. He can be easily defeated in the primary the next time around, as he has not supported the Republican agenda in his first term. I seriously believe, like Ehrlich, he is a one-term MD Republican governor. Not because of democrat voters, but because of Republican ones.
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