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Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Political Maryland’s Democratic Cocoon by Barry Rascovar

Political Maryland’s Democratic Cocoon by Barry Rascovar

Barry Rascovar | November 14, 2016 at 4:27 pm | URL: http://politicalmaryland.com/?p=3262

Barry Rascovar’s blog is www.politicalmaryland.com  He can be reached at brascovar@hotmail.com

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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