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By C. Fraser Smith | June 30, 2002
SOME MOURNED the loss of city-county cooperation. They feared an outbreak of racial or ethnic tension as blacks and whites or Jews and Gentiles struggled for representation. Others decried the outrageous interference of judges in the land of the politician. Most moaned about themselves. In fear and loathing, Maryland Democrats awoke 10 days ago to an altered world. They seemed as bewildered as Dorothy swept out of Kansas and not nearly so brave. They'd been scooped by a judicial tornado and dropped down in alien territory.
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By Barry Rascovar | November 10, 1996
MARYLAND Democrats had better hold their applause. Lurking behind Bill Clinton's landslide in the Free State last week were some disturbing numbers.Yes, Mr. Clinton took Maryland by 272,000 votes. But he lost 15 of 24 subdivisions. Combine Bob Dole's totals with Ross Perot's and after absentee ballots are counted it's likely Mr. Clinton will have won only three subdivisions -- Baltimore City, Prince George's County and Montgomery County.Sound familiar? It looks like a carbon copy of 1992 -- and similar in many respects to 1994.
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By Frank A. DeFilippo | December 19, 1991
IF REPUBLICAN David Duke hopes to retrace Democrat George Wallace's footsteps across Maryland, he picked the right state but the wrong party.Going strictly by the numbers, Duke the kleagle, the newly sanitized Christian, hasn't got a shot as a Republican.Although there are Duke loonies among Maryland Republicans, most of them are mainstream, establishment and middlebrow white-bread types who like to discuss the intricacies of economic policy.But working-class Democrats would be more likely to resonate with Duke's send-'em-a-message politics of welfare reform, urban crime, affirmative action and racial preference programs.
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By Thomas W. Waldron and Thomas W. Waldron,SUN STAFF | November 18, 1999
Once bitter adversaries, Maryland Comptroller William Donald Schaefer and former Attorney General Stephen H. Sachs are on the same team supporting presidential candidate Bill Bradley. Schaefer joined a list yesterday of Maryland Democratic officials who have endorsed Bradley in his run against Vice President Al Gore. "I have been involved in public service for four decades, and rarely have I met someone with the integrity, honesty and character of Bill Bradley," Schaefer said in a statement released by the Bradley campaign.
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By C. Fraser Smith | October 15, 2006
Does anyone really think Republicans have a better modern record on civil rights than Democrats? The question arises in light of the suggestion that black voters in Maryland should abandon the Democratic Party, whose leaders endorsed the 1960s civil rights legislation at the risk of the party's historic dominance in the politics of the South - and the nation. When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, he predicted that the previously "solid" Southern Democrats would seek refuge in the GOP. He was right.
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By C. Fraser Smith and C. Fraser Smith,Staff Writer | February 23, 1992
Bill Clinton launched his bid yesterday for the support of Maryland Democrats in the March 3 presidential primary, with bTC Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke hailing his vision and leadership from the pulpit of a major black church.Calling for a "new covenant" between a demoralized people and their government, the Arkansas governor promised "not just a deal, but a solemn agreement to create new opportunity" in the United States.The nation has been divided deliberately along racial and class lines by Republican politicians for the last 12 years, he charged -- but he quickly added: "I don't care whose fault it is anymore.