Political Maryland’s Democratic Cocoon by Barry Rascovar
Barry Rascovar | November 14, 2016 at 4:27 pm | URL: http://politicalmaryland.com/?p=3262
Nov. 14, 2016 – A Martian landing in Maryland on election
night never would have guessed that Donald Trump was about to pull off the
upset of the century.
That’s because Maryland is an outlier, an exception to what
happens in presidential elections in the rest of the country. Political
Maryland's Democratic Cocoon
Trump got slaughtered in Maryland, receiving just a little
over a third of the vote. Only a few other heavily Democratic states, like
Massachusetts and California, saw such lopsided Democratic victories in the
presidential race won by Republican Trump.
The election map in Maryland looked surprisingly similar to
the 2012 election map. Democrats have such overwhelming majorities in the densely
populated Central Maryland subdivisions that this provides a protective cocoon
for the party’s presidential candidate.
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