MD-GOV: O'Malley and Duncan lead Ehrlich.

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anyone who would vote for o'malley is a moron.  i dont believe 46% of marylanders are moronic.

Democrats outnumber Republicans nearly 2 to 1 in MD.  Even if Ehrlich was an excellent Governor, which he is not, he would still have an uphill battle on his hands.  And seeing that he has been just an OK governor with a severe lack of accomplishments, he's going to struggle all the way until election day.

If you really think O'Malley is competent you are fooling yourself. I have family that work with him personally and I also plenty of my relatives work for the city. And he has not cleaned up the city. They've simply fudged numbers, changed the severity of crimes, and run the drugs underground.

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By the way, the city is without a doubt better off today than it was when O'Malley took office.  Graduation rates are up, test scores are up, violent crime is down (murders are up, but violent crime is down), drug use and addiction is down, and everywhere you look the city is being developed and renovated. The problem is, people believe the city should be turned around overnight.  These type of things are marathons, not sprints.

The only reason violent crime is down is because the formely felony called "assault and battery" was downgraded to simple assault. Property crime is down because "breaking and entering" was changed to simple "destruction of property". I know this to be for fact as my stepfather was a Baltimore County officer for over 30 years and has plenty of friends who work in high places in the city.

Drug use and addiction is not down, the open air markets that O'Malley paraded as being "destroyed" have been run underground into vacant buildings, etc. I know this to be for a fact as my uncle works for a department of the city (I won't mention the name of it here in public, pm if you want to know) who has dealt on almost a daily basis with his employees going to buy drugs from the aforementioned markets. The morale of city employees in that department is very low as they are even more poorly paid then that job is paid here in rural Florida. White bosses are basically forbidden from firing an incompetent employee because of accusations of "racism" and the paperwork gets "tied up" down at city hall.

My cousin is a personal friend of Mayor O'Malley, he tries to defend him to me but he admits he is probably one of the weakest mayors Baltimore has had in a long time. That uncle is head of the Traffic Light division for the city of Baltimore and was on CNN a while back about some silly missing traffic lights.

Yes, the city in many places is being rennovated but not in a way that any working blue collar person could afford. The poor and criminal element are being driven away from the city into Baltimore county and Anne Arundel county.