Charles is disgustingly democrat now. Hogan didn’t carry it while winning statewide.
Not overwhelmingly so, though. Anthony Brown only won Charles by 5%, 52-47% in 2014. Way down from the 61-37% landslide for O’Malley in 2010. It was similar to then-Gov. Ehrlich’s losing margin in 2006, when O’Malley topped him 51-48%.
Modest clarification: Charles is potentially competitive for Hogan in the 2018 Governor’s race given his narrow loss in 2014 against a favored candidate (and drastically closing the wide gap for the Dem in ‘10), but in Presidential races, unless Trump really performs spectacularly, it’s heavily Dem by almost 2-to-1, going 65-33% for Zero in ‘12 (dropping from 37% in ‘08, one of the minority of counties that increased their performance for Zero). Way back in 1988 when the GOP last won the state Presidentially, Charles went for Bush, Sr. by the inverse (from today) margin of 64-36%.
Just as an aside, Bush, Sr.’s performance in neighboring PG County in ‘88 was a respectable 39% (to Dukakis’s 60%). Willard in 2012 got just over 9%(!) there to Zero’s 90%. That margin is so ludicrously lopsided as to call into question how much Dem chicanery is going on in that county (which is worse than even Baltimore City). Hogan got just under 15% there. Back in 2002, Ehrlich got 23%.
Yes, Charles is Prince George’s South. All the way to La Plata.
Waldorf looks like Marlow Heights now.