The race is on..;.

A fond fairwell to Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan. He has done a lot of great stuff for Montgomery County over the last 12 years, but I'm glad he's out of the race. Now Democrats have a chance to get behind their guy early and focus on bringing down a Governor that is woefully out of step with the rest of the State. Plus this makes it a Baltimore style race, so it's gonna get loud and ugly - which translate into fun. I've lived in Maryland since 1992, but the politics is always boring; hopefully this year MD will be producing some races to watch (and laugh and laugh.)

I got an email form Joe Trippi yesterday too asking me to support Kweisi Mfume over Ben Cardin. Ok, it's not really Joe Trippi, it's a staffer with a joetrippi@gmail.com email address, but the real issue is that Mfume might want to take a hint from Duncan. Cardin can beat Steele, but I'm not sure about Mfume - he has a lot of "values" problems which I believe will drive people who are on the fence to Steele. To be honest, I would vote for either Cardin or Mfume in the general, but I'm a party hack.