Posted on 04/30/2015 1:08:02 PM PDT by dennisw
In case you haven’t heard, Martin O’Malley is looking at challenging Hillary Clinton for the Democrats’ nomination next year. (And judging by the media coverage, you may not have heard unless your last name is O’Malley.) Another thing to be aware of when it comes to O’Malley is that he is a former governor of Maryland and mayor of Baltimore, so when the riots broke out this was clearly an appropriate place for him to show up and comment. Or at least somebody on his staff seemed to think so. But as it turned out, not all of the residents were ready to spread out the welcome mat and stroll down memory lane with him.
Plenty of people were quick to pile on. Former RNC chairman Michael Steele (a former Maryland Lt. Governor) said that O’Malley had contributed to “a poisoned atmosphere” in the city. If this is how they talk about Democrats just imagine how the new governor will be treated when this is finally over.
The good news for O’Malley is that this outing probably won’t hurt his poll numbers very much. As of the latest three sets of survey results, he’s actually trailing the margin of error by three. It’s not shocking that Hillary is more than 60 points ahead of him, but he’s at least ten behind a woman who has nearly promised to sacrifice a buffalo to prove she’s not running, and he trails by four points behind a guy who has openly declared himself to be a socialist. The only poll I could find where O’Malley actually leads anyone is this Qunnipiac survey where he edges out Jim Webb by a single point.
I wonder if O’Malley has considered a third party run? At this point, even if Hillary were to bow to the winds of scandal and drop out it’s difficult to picture him surging to any sort of come from behind victory.
Michael Steele’s comment is correct - but it’s not specific to Baltimore, and it’s not NEWS.
Martin O’Malley contributes to a poisonous atmosphere EVERY WHERE he goes.
Yeah. It's hard to drop below zero.
Trailing the margin of error by three is not a good place to be.
Granted, they may be the only two people in America who care about O'Malley's presidential campaign, but it could be a sign of how things are going for Martin O'Malley.
He had arrested lots of people for anything.
1 out of 6 people in Baltimore.
When he was Gov. Martin O’Malley.
In 2005, police made more than 100,000 arrests in a city of 640,000 people. More than 20,000 people were released without being charged by prosecutors.
Imagine him as president. 50 million arrests : )
He became Governor in 2006 and 2010 elections.
Correct
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