The Baltimore Sun’s Maryland Politics blog reports that State Sen. E.J. Pipkin is likely to challenge State Sen. Andy Harris in the Republican primary for the District 1 congressional seat presently held by Congressman Frank Kratovil, a Democrat. Harris, who lost to Kratovil in 2008, expected a clear shot at a rematch in 2010. Republicans […]
November 10, 2008
Absentee ballots appear to have confirmed Democrat Frank Kratovil the winner of the congressional election cliffhanger in Maryland District 1. Kratovil’s margin over Republican Andy Harris doubled from fewer than 1,000 votes on the day after the election, to more than 2,000 votes on Monday, Nov. 10. With most or all of the absentee ballots […]
November 5, 2008
Democracy doesn’t get any better than this. The battle for Maryland’s District 1 congressional seat (Frank Kratovil vs. Andy Harris) will be decided by the absentee ballots, provisional ballots and military ballots. Counting of absentee ballots begins Thursday, Nov. 6, and the winner probably will not be clear until at least Nov. 14. The morning […]
November 3, 2008
Maryland polls are open for 13 hours, from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m., on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. Weather is overcast and mild for early November. Probably rain on and off in many parts of the state. Got questions? The following information and more is only a click away, on the Maryland State Election Board […]
November 2, 2008
Maryland’s District 1 candidates for the House of Representatives have been exchanging negative advertising on the Eastern Shore for weeks. Despite the hot race to replace Rep. Wayne Gilchrest, I think both Frank Kratovil, the Democratic candidate, and Andy Harris, the Republican, have stayed on the high road, focusing their negative advertising on the issues, […]
November 2, 2008
In Maryland, 320,247 new voters were added this year, bringing the total of registered voters to more than 3.4 million. As might be expected, given the popularity of Sen. Barack Obama in Maryland, voters registering in the Democratic Party outnumbered by more than 5-1 the voters registering as Republicans. Tom Wilson has an excellent analysis […]
November 2, 2008
Question 1 on the Maryland ballot would allow early voting. What a concept! Why didn’t we think of this before? Thirty other states already have early voting. Why is Maryland so far behind the curve? — Bernie Hayden
November 29, 2009
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