The Washington Post has almost totally thrown in the towel on covering Montgomery County’s primary races. As a matter of fact, if a voter relied on the Post alone for…
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Pepco’s Money
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Maryland politicians are trying hard to out-bluster each other on Pepco’s poor service quality. But let’s remember that an electric distribution system does not collapse overnight – it degrades over…
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Council At-Large: George Leventhal
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Council Member George Leventhal finished first in the 2006 at-large Democratic primary. What does that mean this year?First, some basic statistics on Leventhal along with his performance chart in 2006….
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Correcting the Record in District 39
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The Mike Miller slate push poll in the District 39 Senate race has sparked all-out war between Senator Nancy King and her challenger, Delegate Saqib Ali. Both sides have mischaracterized…
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Senator Nancy King’s (D-39) campaign sent us the following email in response to our story on possible financing of a push poll against Saqib Ali by Senate President Mike Miller’s…
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Big Daddy Smokes Saqib Ali
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On May 28, we reported on a push poll targeting Saqib Ali. No one claimed responsibility for it. But new campaign finance data points the finger in one clear direction:…
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Council At-Large Geography, Part Four
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The bottom line in any election is who wins and who loses. We’re not ready to make that call for 2010, but we know in excruciating detail how the 2006…
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The Classiest Race in MoCo
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This blog has covered with some amount of hand-rubbing glee the political cat-fights of MoCo. Consider Saqib Ali’s repeated broadsides against Nancy King. Or Ilaya Hopkins’s negative emails against Roger…
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Council At-Large Geography, Part Three
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MCEA’s Apple Ballot had a lot of success in 2006, beating both the Post and Gazette endorsements on win rate in contested races. What impact did it have specifically on…
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Council At-Large Geography, Part Two
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Today, we look at turnout in the 2006 primary and ponder how it might be different this year.Following is 2006 primary turnout for all voters casting ballots at precincts. Our…