[Coop]

As much as I'd love to see this seat turn GOP, I'm not sure how "in play" this seat really will be. Ehrlich did win the gov's seat in '02, but Sauerbrey gave it a good run in the two previous gubernatorial elections. And Maryland stayed true to form in the '04 Presidential election.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"Ehrlich did win the gov's seat in '02, but Sauerbrey gave it a good run in the two previous gubernatorial elections. And Maryland stayed true to form in the '04 Presidential election."

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President Bush got 42.9% in 2004, a bit better than the 40.2% he got in 2000. The Ehrlich-Steele ticket got 51.6% in 2002, and assuming that Gov. Ehrlich can get reelected, it should provide Michael Steele with enough coattails to win the open Senate seat, especially if the Democrat candidate is a black liberal who will run poorly outside of PG County, Baltimore City and a few heavily black Baltco suburbs.

[Torie]

It isn't in play.