Steny Hoyer (US Rep) and Calvert Co, Maryland

[kwolf68]

I was moving into Hagerstown area, but it looks like that deal may fall through. I'll find out tomorrow.

We have found some really well priced houses in Calvert County...In fact, they seem to be too low. My commute to work will be much less in Calvert Maryland as opposed to Hagerstown.

Is this because of the proximity to the east coast? Otherwise, I like what I see...Modest capes with enough room for my family.

ALSO...Instead of having Roscoe Bartlet as my US Rep, it would be Steny Hoyer. What's the skinny on him? I looked him up and he seems pretty good.

I looked up the Demograhpics of the area and its mostly a Democratic District..probably 55-60% solid Democratic. I'm cautiously optimistic about this area, but have my doubts.

[goobergunch]

1. Steny Hoyer is the number 2 Democrat in the House (n/t)

[kwolf68]

2. Damn

From going from having Eric Cantor and Peter Forbes representing me (completely right wing loons) to the #2 Dem in the House? Now that just isn't fair!!!! :party:

I will push for this move as long as the houses aren't next to nuclear reactors or sewage plants...And I'm not telling my wife its a Democratic District. :) She wants to live with Republicans....She just aint married to one.

[jiacinto]

3. Calvert County is a "white flight" area

It's becoming a lot like Carroll and Fredrick Counties: solidly Republican. It's a "fast growing" county that is attracting white suburbanities fleeing from places like the Baltimore and the DC suburbs. It went solidly for Ehrlich.

What makes Hoyer's seat safely Democratic is PG County.

[kwolf68]

4. Yea it seems so

I looked up the actual Calvert County election results for local offices and a lot of them were fairly solid Democratic, but you are right Calvert went with that jerk Erhlich...by 16K to 9K


Marylands--election results:::
http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/mdmanual/42electg/html/2002/2002gov.html

Montgomery and PGs County is heavy Democratic and along with Baltimore City were the only 3 locations that went with the Democrats. Charles County looks like the only other county where Democrats have a shred of hope...The #s aren't even close. Its amazing the Democrats have anyone in the US Congress from Maryland outside of B-More.

Oh well...If I move to Calvert...They may as well just batton down their chin straps.

[jiacinto]

5. Well

The state--Ehrlich's victory nothwithstanding--is still pretty Democratic. Joe Curran and William Donald Schafer won landslide victory in their campaigns for AG and Comptroller. Barbara Mikulski should win in a landslide victory next year. Sarbanes will win in 2006.

The reading from the 2002 debacle is that it was more a of a backlash against KKT than the Democratic Party. Democrats simply didn't like her. As she lost Chris Van Hollen and Dutsch Ruppersberger won formerly GOP held seats.

But Calvert County is one of those growing "exurban" areas where Ehrlich thrashed KKT. It's attracting fleeing suburbanities from the DC and the Baltimore area. It's a fast growing county that is attracting white conservatives. It's the quintessential fast-growing exurban conservative area. Although ancestrally Democrat the arrivals of the "white flight" have changed the county's political voting patterns completely.

Overall MD is Democratic due to the DC Suburbs and Baltimore City. The DC suburbs are hospitable to the Democrats because government employment and employment that deals with the government drives the region. Also PG County is predominantly black--what's interesting is that Nixon carried PG County in 1972 and in 1976 before Democrats finally took hold.

The Baltimore Suburbs--Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Harford, and Howard Counties--swing elections. KKT fared miserably there, especially in the first three and lost the election there. Those areas are split between the parties.

The Eastern Shore, Southern MD, and the Western Panhandle are all heavily Republican. That's where most of the white flight exurbs are, and where you are moving to.

[Evanstondem]

6. I read that Hoyer is defending No Child Left Behind

This concerns me, because this act stinks. A lot of people who voted for it are now criticizing it.