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November 7, 2008

Kratovil's lead widens

It's looking like the Democrats may really be able to pick up another Congressional seat in Maryland. The Maryland Board of Elections has updated its numbers with the absentee ballot counts from every county in the 1st Congressional District, and Democrat Frank Kratovil's lead in the still too close to call race is now up to 2,003 votes. He led by about 900 on election day and by about 1,800 at press time yesterday.

More rounds of absentee counts are still to come as ballots mailed on or just before election day continue to trickle in to county election offices. And provisional ballots won't be counted until next week, so we may not have an official winner for some time. But it's not good news for Republican Andy Harris that Kratovil's lead has steadily widened as more absentees have been counted. There's no reason to imagine that the late-mailed absentees or provisional ballots would be more Republican-leaning than those that have been counted so far.

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Laura Smitherman has been ensconced in the State House basement, writing about the governor, General Assembly and vagaries of Maryland politics for several years. An erstwhile business reporter, her interest in politics dates to her days in Washington when she covered Congress and national campaigns for another media outlet. She now follows a range of policy debates from slot-machine gambling to universal health care and energy regulation, while keeping an eye on the next election.

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