Perhaps, but I just can't see 1.08% of the population making up the +4% margin, and I disagree with it being close.. Hogan won big IMO.
That and his campaign sucked. Nobody I spoke with could articulate one single idea Brown had. Well, other than white people are the devil.
I'll probably get flamed for this, but I don't think that SB281 had anything to do with the governorship this election.
Marylanders are being crushed with higher and higher taxes and fees. We are the laughing stock of the nation for absurd and over reaching taxation. In reality I believe this election was won on 2 reasons.
1) Taxes
2) Brown
Brown has done a absolute terrible job, and that fact was incredibly easy to convey.
Hogan is going to have a difficult time, as the make up of MD houses an senate did not change all that much. I'm praying he doesn't not end up like Ehrlich.
I think you are mostly correct, but I have to think SB281 might have motivated some. Even if it's only a point worth of the difference, it's something.
Perhaps, but I just can't see 1.08% of the population making up the +4% margin, and I disagree with it being close.. Hogan won big IMO.
I voted for the first time in my life and I am 35 years old. Of course, I voted hogan knowing he was backed by the nra. My new found love of firearms was a major reason for me voting.
Hogan did win big, because many ex democrats like myself voted for him. A great amount of us are just fed up with the taxes for one, and me personally with the gun laws. Brown never had my vote since I hated omalley agenda and Obama the liar.
Don't mean to make the gun club feel less special but I don't think the hogan big victory had anything to do with him winning, let alone winning big. Many of us blacks were and are tired of omalley and Obama. There will be alot more votes to be had and people of my kind to be converted going down the road if this is played right.
Let's not kid ourselves. It was not SB281 that got Larry Hogan elected (otherwise Frosh would not have made it to be the AG). It was the deluge of taxes and the economy overall.
The only clear ideas that came out of Brown's campaign, from my perspective were:That and his campaign sucked. Nobody I spoke with could articulate one single idea Brown had. Well, other than white people are the devil.