Meanwhile, with his incessant tweets, Trump keeps himself in the news every day, and several times a day. Add the daily, even hourly, reports about indictments and convictions stemming from investigations of Trump's 2016 campaign, and you have a steady rain of news about politics. It takes effort to avoid getting drenched by it.
So I don't buy the claim that voters never think about elections until after the first Monday in September. These times, they are not normal.
For nearly a week Republican Gov.
Democratic challenger
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Which might be why
So far, Jealous has been out-punched badly by Hogan and the
"If it weren't for the Hogan commercials talking about the Democratic candidate, we might not know that there really is one," cracked someone who goes by
The TV commercials portray Hogan as a swell guy responsible for a Reaganesque "morning in
So the Republican came out swinging while the Democrat was still in his corner.
Hogan was already ahead of Jealous in almost every respect. He is better known, for one thing, by virtue of his office and his public bout with cancer, and he's scored high approval ratings ever since he moved into the governor's mansion. In a state where
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Just last week, the governor joined the two top Democratic leaders in the
So, by most measures, Hogan is well ahead of Jealous, leading a lot of
Spokesmen for both Jealous and the
Only one candidate for governor has ever received more than 1 million votes in the state of
On Wednesday, Jealous' campaign met with reporters in
The Jealous agenda is appealingly progressive -- free college tuition, single-payer health-care-for-all -- which sounds great but will look like pie-in-the-sky without smart and detailed messaging, even in places where you'd expect a liberal to succeed.
And none of this works unless Jealous can get an army of young
If Jealous has any advantage, it's that he's the underdog. He's up against an incumbent with close to
Some think this campaign is over already. But I'll offer a hedge: Maybe Jealous is playing rope-a-dope, allowing the
I have to throw that in. After all, it ain't
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