Four Ron Paul Republican's win Congressional Primaries in Maryland

[tekkierich]

I am pleased to report that we have four Ron Paul Republicans who will be running the general election in Maryland. This is four of eight districts.

District 2 - Richard Matthews - http://www.richardmatthews.org
District 4 - Peter James - http://peterjames08.com/
District 5 - Collins Baliey - http://www.baileyforuscongress.com/
District 7 - Mike Hargadon - http://hargadonforuscongress.com/

 

[tommyzDad]

All right!! Great job, guys!

 

[WilliamC]

This is how the rEVOLution grows....

FANTASTIC!

 

[brandon]

wow, awesome! Good luck. Let us pa guys know if you need any help canvassing

 

[Dustancostine]

Great Job,

I lived in Annapolis in 2005. It was nice.

--Dustan

 

[jlizgar]

Awesome Awesome news!
Did Jay Roberts in district 8 not win ?

 

[Bradley in DC]

Great news! What are the chances for any of them? I know MD is pretty Democratic.

 

[Mystile]

nice! this has a lot of potential!

 

[weslinder]

This is awesome. This is how we take back the government, one Congressional District at a time.

 

[robmpreston]

Now we just have to beat the democrats :|

 

[Mystile]

Now we just have to beat the democrats :|

that could be difficult

 

[zadrock]

Great news! What are the chances for any of them? I know MD is pretty Democratic.

First impression is that James has the best shot because he's not facing an incumbent. Al Wynn lost the primary to challenger Donna Edwards, so District 4 will get a new rep either way.

The other three opponents - Elijah Cummings, Dutch Ruppersberger, and Steny Hoyer - are pretty well known and will be well funded. Hoyer is House Majority Leader and Cummings is in his 10th term in what used to be Kweisi Mfume's district. Dutch is the least experienced of the group, running for his fourth term.

Just looking at the primary numbers gives a pretty good indication of the D/R split here. Cummings got 91000 votes, Hargadon got almost 10000. Hoyer got 64000 votes, Bailey got 11000. We're going to have to make serious inroads in the Democratic community. And if McCain is the nominee, we're also going to have to a good GOTV for Republicans, especially those who think about staying home.

Hopefully with four RP Republicans in a geographically small state, we can RP himself here a few times to campaign, maybe with all four candidates together.

Z

 

[zadrock]

Hey, Elijah Cummings is on TV (CNN). He's grilling Roger Clemens. Great use of his time and taxpayer money.

Z

 

[jumpyg1258]

Al Wynn lost the primary to challenger Donna Edwards, so District 4 will get a new rep either way.

I got to vote in district 4 and the only people handing out literature at my voting place were Edwards people, no one that was supporting a pres candidate was there and no one that was supporting anyone else was there for that matter. Im so glad though that Wynn lost the primary, I could not stand that douchebag.

 

[jumpyg1258]

BTW where can I find detailed results of the vote yesterday? I looked at mdgop.com and couldnt find anything!

 

[NinjaPirate]

Great job! Keep going!

 

[klamath]

James, doesn't quite sound like a RP republican. It sounds like he is supporting the Iraq war?

 

[pmbug]

W00t!

 

[life_boy]

BTW where can I find detailed results of the vote yesterday? I looked at mdgop.com and couldnt find anything!

The Washington Post

 

[Richie]

BTW where can I find detailed results of the vote yesterday? I looked at mdgop.com and couldnt find anything!

http://www.electionsmaryland.com/