MD: Washington Post: Mikulski (D) ahead by 37

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From the campaign website.  I don't see how this collection of recycled platitudes could possibly play well in Maryland.  It remains to be seen whether Mikulski will actually beat her performance in 2004 (64%), I don't expect it but I wouldn't find it surprising either.  The state is polarized, and the Republicans are outnumbered.  Running on your lifelong membership in the NRA is hardly a winning strategy in Baltimore.  This is not to say it is impossible for a Republican to win this seat, but from what I can find of Wargotz online he has not made an especially compelling case as to why the voters of Maryland would vote directly against their own ideological inclinations as people elsewhere might.

[SPQR]

Democrats= the pretentiously overeducated and those with less than college or high school education.  In other words, a coalition of the not-so-smart and the I-think-I'm-smarter than you crowd.

That's interesting.  I wasn't aware that pretension was a pre-requisite for a postgraduate degree (aka "overeducation"), or that having a  less-than-college education made someone "not-so-smart."  Plenty of folks in my graduating class didn't bother with college, and let me tell you, they'd find your framing job to be really charming.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

That 3% more federal employees is clearly the only reason Mikulski is leading by 37%.

Yes, but in addition to the federal employees who just had a sudden epiphany about the size of government under the Democrats, there are blacks too!  Which is new, I guess.

I'm with Mr. Read.  Does anyone have a less zany explanation for Mikulski's ridiculous leads this year?

Who said anything about sudden?  High percentage of government workers + blacks + post-grad educated = a hoplessly Democratic state.  Mikulski is an incumbent that Marylanders like.

So education=democrats...good that you admit it lol

Democrats= the pretentiously overeducated and those with less than college or high school education.  In other words, a coalition of the not-so-smart and the I-think-I'm-smarter than you crowd.

Sanctimonious rubbish, seriously. So an undergraduate college education is fine... but no more? 

[cinyc]

Democrats= the pretentiously overeducated and those with less than college or high school education.  In other words, a coalition of the not-so-smart and the I-think-I'm-smarter than you crowd.

That's interesting.  I wasn't aware that pretension was a pre-requisite for a postgraduate degree (aka "overeducation"), or that having a  less-than-college education made someone "not-so-smart."  Plenty of folks in my graduating class didn't bother with college, and let me tell you, they'd find your framing job to be really charming.

I wonder when the coalition of people who will answer my question instead of soapboxing obnoxiously will arrive.

Perhaps not-so-obviously, my comment is part tongue in cheek.  I'd didn't mean to equate lack of a college education as "not so smart", especially since many of those without a college education tend to be older folks who simply didn't go to college back in the day. 
 
Pretension is certainly not a pre-requisite for a postgraduate degree, but it often comes with the territory.   Democrats are the party that thinks government knows best - and the overeducated often have the attitude that they know better than the rest of us plebes.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Democrats= the pretentiously overeducated and those with less than college or high school education.  In other words, a coalition of the not-so-smart and the I-think-I'm-smarter than you crowd.

That's interesting.  I wasn't aware that pretension was a pre-requisite for a postgraduate degree (aka "overeducation"), or that having a  less-than-college education made someone "not-so-smart."  Plenty of folks in my graduating class didn't bother with college, and let me tell you, they'd find your framing job to be really charming.

I wonder when the coalition of people who will answer my question instead of soapboxing obnoxiously will arrive.

Perhaps not-so-obviously, my comment is part tongue in cheek.  I'd didn't mean to equate lack of a college education as "not so smart", especially since many of those without a college education tend to be older folks who simply didn't go to college back in the day. 
 
Pretension is certainly not a pre-requisite for a postgraduate degree, but it often comes with the territory.   Democrats are the party that thinks government knows best - and the overeducated often have the attitude that they know better than the rest of us plebes.

Making a generalisation like that isn't any more accurate than saying... well, those who didn't go to college are jealous of those who did etc etc... neither is accurate (even with your caveats).

No, Democrats don't think that Government knows 'best', it's the party that thinks the state can be used for positive effect.

I must some kind of pretentious monster, I have two degrees (considering my third), I'm a liberal... but I know it's not true, I got my education because I love to learn more, I did it to develop specialist skills and FWIW, I also worked full time while getting my masters, and I'm far from the exception.

Frankly, the anti-intellectualism from the right is kind of sad, and not based on any real evidence, apart from the fact the as a general rule, the more educated you are, the more liberal you tend to be... so?

[Alcon]

Democrats= the pretentiously overeducated and those with less than college or high school education.  In other words, a coalition of the not-so-smart and the I-think-I'm-smarter than you crowd.

That's interesting.  I wasn't aware that pretension was a pre-requisite for a postgraduate degree (aka "overeducation"), or that having a  less-than-college education made someone "not-so-smart."  Plenty of folks in my graduating class didn't bother with college, and let me tell you, they'd find your framing job to be really charming.

I wonder when the coalition of people who will answer my question instead of soapboxing obnoxiously will arrive.

Perhaps not-so-obviously, my comment is part tongue in cheek.  I'd didn't mean to equate lack of a college education as "not so smart", especially since many of those without a college education tend to be older folks who simply didn't go to college back in the day. 
 
Pretension is certainly not a pre-requisite for a postgraduate degree, but it often comes with the territory.   Democrats are the party that thinks government knows best - and the overeducated often have the attitude that they know better than the rest of us plebes.

Thank you for a partisan re-framing of American Politics 101 explanations of political ideologies in America.  I continue to have no idea why Mikulski is polling so well, but at least now I can write the essay portion of the final of a community college class I took two years ago.

[Torie]

One thought I have. Mikulski is a very nice lady. I in following her somewhat for decades, have never heard her say a demagogic thing in my life. That is quite a legacy. I suspect that I would vote for her. FWIW.

Plus MD is packed with blacks and folks not black, who are dependent on government expenditures and regulation for their livelihood, whether working for the government, or not. So, Maryland probably minds less than almost anywhere else in the nation, about all that stimulus money going to public employees.