05-08-2013, 04:57 AM
Mac-A-Matic wrote:
[quote=RgrF]
Common now, even you might admit that a south of the Mason-Dixon line state to be solid blue is an exception. Maybe you meant to compare with Michigan or New Jersey, although I'm not sure I can recall any voting machine executives who are declared Democrats.
I'm not really concerned about Maryland, The Old Line State, being "south" of the Mason-Dixon Line. That's irrelevant.
Here in Maryland, all you have to have is the Democrat label and you're virtually guaranteed of winning (or maintaining) the seat. Not to mention the blatant and obscene gerrymandering, corruption and draconian approach to laws.
So, while people complain that SC is corrupt and republican (evidently it's corrupt because of the republicans), Maryland is corrupt and democrat (which must mean that it's corrupt because of the democrats).
Of course, both states (and others) lack a semblance of balance in government, which inevitably means corruption.
I call BS, Mac-A-Matic. I live in MD, and i can say with some certainty that the Democratic Party is hardly a monolith. We've also had a Republican governor in the last decade. Yeah, it's tough for the GOP here, but that doesn't mean that the Liberal Agenda reigns unchecked here. O'Malley took his sweet time getting to support same-sex marringe, and the Democratic legislature was slow to illegalize capital punishment. There's a vibrant political ecosystem here.