Following are the percentages gained by Republican candidates in Baltimore City, Montgomery County and Prince George’s County since 2002. Races with no GOP candidate or with incomplete tickets are not included. Together, these three jurisdictions accounted for 42% of Maryland’s registered voters in 2010.
Montgomery County: The great GOP tidal wave of 2010 caused an average Republican gain of 2.9 points in MoCo. No Republicans were elected in 2006. No Republicans were elected in 2010. (The county does have six precincts in Congressional District 6 that vote for Republican Roscoe Bartlett.)
Prince George’s County: The Republicans’ vote percentage has declined steadily since 2002. They did not bother to contest the majority of elections in the county in 2010.
Baltimore City: Just as in Prince George’s, the GOP’s performance is so poor that they often do not bother running candidates in Baltimore City. And the chart below does not include the Republicans’ losses in city government races, which are held in odd-numbered years.
Here is the GOP’s record in the three Democratic strongholds together.
How are the Republicans supposed to compete statewide if they cede these three jurisdictions to the Democrats?