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Yeah I’m in Maryland and worried about Brown.

I actually think Hogan’s ads have mostly been pretty good, I give him credit, at least for their style. He’s got one where he fills in a box of squares with different taxes he claims O’Malley and Brown have foisted on defenseless Marylanders.

Substantively I don’t give a sh8t about some nickle and dime tax on this or that service or situation, and hopefully most voters won’t either. But he’s kept to his theme of Maryland being overtaxed, unfriendly to business, with too high a cost of living, etc.

Brown probably wasn’t the best candidate the Dems could have nominated as he was responsible directly or indirectly for the state’s botched healthcare site rollout, which had a worse time of it than the federal website.

Nonetheless, O’Malley and the state Dems helped get gay marriage approved among other positive changes. The roads are generally in pretty good shape, too, better than, say, Pennsylvania’s. But I would worry about how Hogan would implement, or not implement, the state’s continued efforts with Obamacare. Fortunately I don’t think a GOP governor could do much about SSM.