This year’s Governor’s race has certain parallels with 1998. Both years saw an incumbent Democrat in a rematch with a tough opponent, and both years saw low primary turnout in…
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Phil Andrews, Council At-Large, 1994
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Phil Andrews is now known as the virtually invulnerable County Council Member from District 3 (Rockville/Gaithersburg), but he did not start out that way. Andrews first ran for a council…
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MoCo Demographics and Voting, Part Four
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Five top-tier candidates ran in the 2006 Council At-Large primary: incumbents George Leventhal, Nancy Floreen and Mike Subin and labor-backed challengers Marc Elrich and Duchy Trachtenberg. A host of less…
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End Gridlock Team, Council At-Large, 2002
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During the entire 1998-2002 term, freshman Council Member Blair Ewing battled County Executive Doug Duncan on the ICC, development policy, living wage and other issues. In the spring of 2002,…
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Ariana Kelly, who won the Democratic primary for the District 16 House seat, has now joined the incumbent slate of Senator Brian Frosh and Delegates Susan Lee and Bill Frick….
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MoCo Demographics and Voting, Part Three
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Conventional wisdom holds that voters of color do not turn out at the same rate as white voters. How true is that in Montgomery County?As we detailed in Part One,…
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Jeff Waldstreicher’s Walk Piece, 2006
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This is the walk piece used by District 18 Delegate Jeff Waldstreicher in his first run for office in 2006. Jeff won a close race over fellow first-time contender Dan…
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A Sign of the Times
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Karen Montgomery Declares Victory
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The Board of Elections has released its official primary results that show Karen Montgomery defeating District 14 Senator Rona Kramer by a 4,973 to 4,857 vote tally. Montgomery sent the…
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MoCo Demographics and Voting, Part Two
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As we saw in Part One, MoCo’s major demographic groups are not distributed evenly across the county. Here are the percentages of Hispanics, white non-Hispanics, black non-Hispanics and Asian non-Hispanics…