Free Republic

The votes were not yet tallied on election night when Gov. Parris N. Glendening pronounced his lieutenant governor's bid to succeed him "one of the worst-run campaigns in the country," a remark Democrats across Maryland agreed was in particularly bad taste. But in the three weeks since Kathleen Kennedy Townsend lost the governor's race, few dispute that he was right. And the man they most often blame for the humiliating loss to Republican Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., for losing control of state government and costing hundreds of Democratic state workers their jobs is the man who ran her campaign: Alan...