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April 19, 2007
Duck to run against Bartlett again
The first step in the Democratic Party’s efforts to win Western Maryland’s 6th Congressional District after 15 years of Republican leadership is finding a viable candidate.Andrew Duck of Brunswick, who lost to U.S. Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett (R) in November, announced Monday that he will run again in next year’s election.
Duck’s announcement comes just days before the Western Maryland Democratic Summit, designed to strategize on ways to build the party in the 6th District, and win in 2008.
I think Duck will face a definite bigger challenge this time around. Looking at voter turnout in the MD-06 for the last 8 election cycles there are definitely Republican surges every Presidential election cycle that helps Bartlett get reelected, but Bartlett will be 82 by the next election cycle and one has to wonder how many more of these fights does he have left in him? This is also his first time in office where the House was not controlled by tyrannical Republican leadership and the feeling is that he might decide that he's had enough of the minority status and retire. Not to mention that the one area where he doesn't rubberstamp the radical Republican agenda is on the environment and we know how they work...You are either all in on their radical agenda or you're out. Gilchrest has a similar problem in the MD-01 and the Republicans hate him for standing for something other than their radical agenda, so both are relegated to being trivialized because of their political party. I think both will face major challenges from the extremists in their own party this election cycle, Gilchrest for his Iraq time line votes and Bartlett for his comments like "It's possible to be a conservative without appearing to be an idiot." The radical extremists in the Republican party find such principled stands to be offensive and then of course there is the Republican in the MD-03, but we've already got plans to handle that problem since he's a Lieberman style DINO. So let's see what do we have now? Andrew Duck for the MD-06 (maybe the greens could set this one out and help out since there is no chance a Republican would support anything you believe in), Donna Edwards in the MD-03 and now we just need someone serious in the MD-01 to have the trifecta.
Read more over at Gazette.net.
Posted by Jamison at April 19, 2007 3:07 PM
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