Tuesday, December 5, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST
In case you missed it, (I had missed it and can’t thank GOPCharlie enough for calling it to my attention…) Brendan Miniter, who has a most excellent column on the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal, has written a fascinating vignette of Maryland Governor Robert L. Ehrlich.
'A Wipeout Election'
ANNAPOLIS, Md.--In the four weeks since losing his bid for re-election, Gov. Robert Ehrlich has been braced by an outpouring of support from constituents. Each day he reads some of the thousand of letters and emails that have come in and marvels as one after the other expresses regret for his defeat.
But every so often, the governor told me on Friday, he comes across a letter of a different sort. These come from residents who say that they're "sorry" that they couldn't support him "this time," but that if he runs again they'll likely vote for him then.
Here the governor, the first Republican chief executive the state has seen in more than three decades, pauses. We're sitting in a private study in the governor's mansion, and over some 90 minutes a half dozen of his top staff members will trickle in and take a seat. None possess an answer to the question he now asks: "How do you respond to that?"
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He lost last month because the Democratic voters who had supported him four years ago decided this year to use their votes to "send a message" to Republicans in Washington.
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Read the rest here.
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