At work, at church, at various functions, we have yet to talk to someone that has been contacted for one of these polls. And in all of these conversations, we have yet to talk to someone that thinks O'Malley is doing a good job.

Maryland has a history of electing unimpressive candidates and sticking with them. Too bad the state isn't as progressive as their neighbors in Massachussetts.

Why go backwards with Ehrlich? If the Republicans want to challenge O'Malley then find someone with new ideas to be the candidate. Ehrlich accomplished nothing in his 4 years as governor except to bring the politics of diviseness to the state. He continues with his pointless radio program. He offers no solutions because he had none as governor. He takes patronage jobs for his wife and himself with Republican connected law firms and a radio show with conservative media propaganda machine. Let him get a real job for once in his life. Why are Republicans still so enamored with this guy?

Interesting..they say Ehrlich could not accomplish anything as if O'Malley has and with his Democratic majority in house and senate..Oh wait a minute he has --slots. Still not one operational but it was the Democrats who blockcaded all he Ehrlich did to get them for 4 years while he was in..and true Ehrlich was not the perfect governor but at l;east he did try and control spending and did treat employees fair.

...and Coakley was leading by more than 30 points last month in a state with a greater ratio of Dems to Republicans. This is not news.

Hey AFMCA, you are right one minute (Ehrlich was a lousy governor with no real discernible difference from MOM), then wrong the next (no way C4 or Ms. Elliker are spouting "conservative propoganda). Closing your mind to views you disagree with and sticking labels on them to ridicule them is a complete waste of effort and ultimately makes you more ignorant. I recommend you listen to all views and then make up your mind without making the decision all about you.

When Ehrlich left office Maryland had a surplus. Within one year of Marty the teflon leprechaun, that surplus was gone. Now the deficit is deeper and yet this clown still blames Bush. What happened to all that slots money? People, like sheep, voted for it and where is it? Crime is still rising in the city (and in City Hall, right Sheila?) and also statewide. Taxes are still rising under the teflon leprechaun and yet he allegedly has a lead in the polls? *L* Typical stupid Maryland voters whose handbook reads : Pull lever for any candidate with a D next to name. Then blame the GOP for all the ills of the state, even though it's been years since one was in office.

People of Md support Mikulski that much? We need to wake up. The aborted kids and former residents of Sodom and Gomorrah could tell you that.

how do you get into these polls i have never been contacted by anyone for polling so i think its made up for dummies to read and think its real.by the way i know of no one who can even bear to hear o'malley cry or whine.

Factoid, isn't it Clinton who left Bush with a surplus? What was it Bush left us? War and Recession. Thank you President Bush!

No one that I know was polled. Mikulski is the one that needs to fear Ehrlich, not O'Malley. He will be able to beat either of them by November. O'Malley is the poorest and most incompetent Maryland governor we have had in my memory, including Paris Glendening. Mikulski has done nothing for the state of Maryland except vote like a lap-dog on liberal national legislation. She is lying to us now by not telling us the truth about the health care & cap & trade bills before congress now. In her defense, I don't think she knows or understands these bills & what they will cost us in Maryland. Why won't she explain what federally unfunded mandates are & how much they will cost us in Maryland. As a lifelong Marylander & one who was a 30 year democrat, I can't believe that I voted for & suupported Mikulski for all the years and now she turns on us. Maybe its her age. Being at age 74 at election time, maybe we are developing another Robert Byrd or Strom Thurman. I can't imagine her thinking ability at the age of 80 given the way she thinks now.

I am not going to vote again until I hear the next candidate talk about how he/she is going to suupport thier workforce. I understand the political nature of this but believe me it would go a long way. Show the data to Marylanders of what the workforce actually does to remove the myth that all Maryland workers are lazy and overpaid. I have worked for the state for twenty years and just like every workforce there are staff that should be looking for a differnt job but the bigger picture is that most of the Maryland workforce is underpaid,overworked and have no incentive to thrive, oh my bad there is one incentive - you have a job don't you. Most Marylanders do not understand this because all they feel is long lines and bad service - well why is that? There is never enough staff to provide awesome service. So wouldn't it be great to hear a candidate say that he/she wants to get state salaries near the levels of federal and county employees - wouldn't that be great.

Gov Ehrlich came in and was immediately confronted with a blockade. The "two Mikes" decided to continue to be politicians and not be statesmen. Had they had the interest of the entire State in mind, and not the Democrat party, slots would be up and running and revenue would be coming in to offset some of the downturn in the economy. Now that the surrounding states are up and running, it is probably too late to make a big impact with this endeavor. Had Governor O'Malley decided to forego numerous land acquisitions, most of which were for non-threatened, land-locked parcels, the Maryland budget would have more available funds to offset the economic downturn. We buy this land as a "legacy for our grandchildren" while allowing the parents and grandparents to struggle with State furloughs, increased State taxes that drive employers away and increased State sales taxes that negatively impact day to day living or drive consumers to DE, PA, etc. We have laws that make bids for public works projects cost 20 to 30% more than they should because we have living wages, MBE goals that are based upon fabricated information and not factual evidence. So maybe Round 2 of Ehrlich wouldn't be too bad, especially if it is accompanied by increased republican and independent representation in the legislature.

Mikulski "appears headed toward another easy re-election," Gonzales concluded in a report accompanying the survey results.
I hope the old lady believes this. She's old enough to collect SS in Nov. There are lots of similarities between MA and MD.

Afmca- seriously, a real job? MOM marries into political power, then lives off the public the rest of his career. He'll be the next senator, which would be 6 yrs from now. It's only coincidental that would be the end of Bab's term & MOM's 2nd term. If Sheila gets $80,00 something a year. How much does MOM get? A real job- please?

2 things: #1 When Ehrlich had a budget surplus, according to the Washington Post, it was "in large part because of a real estate boom." We all know how that turned out. #2. What did Ehrlich accomplish? Having a surplus does no good if there are no tangible improvements for our state.

And at least Martin O'Malley can make up his mind. Ehrlich is still waffling on whether to even run for Governor. Is that really someone you'd want in office?

You're all a bunch of conspiracy theorists, as usual. A typical poll is around 1,000 likely voters and nearly 2 milion people in maryland vote in the gubernatorial elections. That's one in two thousand. I'd say it would be more worrisome if all of you DID know people who had been polled.

I work in a large IT firm in Baltimore and even my Democrat friends say they will never vote for O'Malley again. I think they must poll at some Democrat Club.

Ehrlich is a right-wing nut job, but I have a feeling he could beat O'Malley. The problem is that O'Malley is a lame-o "moderate" with a lousy record on the environment and is far too cozy with big business. Hence, the Democrat base won't be energized in November. Ehrlich could paint himself as an "outsider' (Ha!) and walk away with the win. Personally, I'd like to see Gansler run as an anti-corporate, pro-consumer liberal and knock O'Mayor out in the primaries.

I've volunteered for his campaign, I know people who've worked under him as mayor and governor, & yet every single one of them says they don't even intend to vote for him again themselves! So I don't believe these poll numbers at all.

O'Malley made tons of promises in order to beat Bob Ehrlich and has failed on all fronts even with a Democrat legislature. At least Ehrlich had the excuse of the Democrat legislature blocking his every initiative for political reasons at the expense of the state. I love it how people refuse to give credit to Ehrlich for Maryland's surplus that was handed to O'Malley, yet continue to blame Bush & Ehrlich for today's budget shortfall! Do you people even listen to the contradictory voices in your collective heads? Here's the list of O'Malley FAILURES...

Slots... Delayed again & again, failed plan that resulted in one delay after another, the state won't see a dime of money for at least another year & every surrounding state with slots has beat us to the money.

Thornton Education Funding... See slots above, this has turned out to be a broken campaign promise, due to the failure to get slots off the ground, education has been underfunded in Maryland & by the time slots gets off the ground, an entire generation of children will have been cheated in their education funding (dating back to Bob Ehrlich's initial proposal for slots)

Energy Rates... Promised to regulate CEG/BGE, failed, & failed to strike a deal to reduce energy rates & almost ran one of Maryland's last Fortune 500 companies out of the state at the same time, a complete failure & another broken campaign promise.

Business growth & Jobs... Maryland has lost more private sector jobs than almost any other state in the country. If not for the Federal Government & BRAC, this state would have gone bankrupt by now. Babye Black & Decker, we'll miss you, the list of businesses that leave this state is too numerous to list & O'Malley's anti-business attitude of claiming he's sticking up for the working man is getting a little thin. When he gets done, we'll either all work for the government or we'll be jobless/homeless & living off of public assistance. Oh, that's right, he laid off state workers too!

Taxes... Broke promise not to increase taxes, & increased them regressively mostly on the poor & middle class too as well. Why people don't see the hypocrisy there amazes me.

Transportation... The Baltimore Red Line proposal is DOA with the Feds, I-95 is a disaster in design. Where's all that stimulus money being wasted?

Environment... While laying off state employees, he funded a wacky expensive regional climatology study to find out it's cooler in the shade & that cities near other cities have more smog & are warmer. Any idiot could tell you that.

Finally, while laying off state workers, our Governor and State Legislature are considering giving themselves a PAY INCREASE! Could you imagine if Ehrlich were to attempt such a thing, the public outrage & tons of stories in The Sun? Yet all's quiet, go figure.

Ehrlich needs to go after Cardin's seat. That guy is a multi-millionaire who has done nothing for the state but get his nephew out of trouble. Ehrlich will never get anything passed as Governor; he could balance the country by ousting Millionaire Ben

wondering how MOM could provide all he promised when we were slammed by a recession less than a year after he won..

wondering how Ehirlich gave us a surplus w/o tackling the structual deficit we faced in our budget during his time?

wondering why people actually listen to politicians promises in the first place?

wondering how folks dont recall how Ehirlich gave away the farm during the last election year.. after denying everyone and everybody for the first 3 years?

aww the hell with it.. all pols are crooked!!

On the Eastern Shore we know when we have been decieved. O'Malley and Kratovile are 2 birds of a feather. They talk one way and work in another. Both like to spend money at an alarming rate. And both will be rejected on November. By the way I did my own poll of 950 likely voters and it conflicts drastically with this one. Both are worthless at this point in time.

Believe what you want. What happened in MA has nothing to do with Maryland. That was a special election, and special elections always favor the party which is out of power. Personally I don't particularly care for O'Malley, though for very different reasons than all you reactionaries. But Marylanders will not soon forget what happened to their energy bills when Ehrlich deregulated BGE. And as has been previously pointed out, most people in this state are smart enough to recognize how the housing bubble contributed to our fiscal situation under Ehrlich, and how its collapse has effected O'Malley's priorities. It could be close, but Maryland will probably stay blue. We're not as easily duped as people in many other states.

Here's a factoid for the factoid. Bill Clinton with the help of fiscally conservative Democrats left George Bush and his repugnut blowhards a trillion dollar surplus which they promptly squandered on a senseless war while padding the wallet of Cheney's Halliburton and cutting taxes for his rich friends including the Bin Laden family.. I remind all you repugnuts it was Cheney who claimed deficits didnt matter not Omalley or Obama.. Oh you forgot that, I guess when Cheney sent 5000 Americans to die in a scumbag third world nation you forgot he was no war hero. Factoid Cheney got 5 draft deferments while 58000 Americans died in VN.. Repugnuts just like to hate everything the Constitution stands for. Erhlich will just be old cheap tasteless wine in a fancy new bottle. Wake up Maryland repugnuts the planet really is more than 6000 years old which is probably the last time any of you had a creative idea.

Ehirlich left this state in debt, just like Glendenning, and every other gov since Spiro Agnew. I appreciate Ehirlich's stand in favor of medical marijuana, as someone who had cancer, but other than that he was just another 2 party fool. As long as the rep/dems control the state house it's one big party for the connected. The Ehirlich/Schaffer/Raynor/Glendenning BS will just raise taxes.

It's just goes to show how dumb the average voter is...

One person here is still blaming Bush/Cheney for Maryland's problems! HAha!

And another says this gem...
"Marylanders will not soon forget what happened to their energy bills when Ehrlich deregulated BGE...We're not as easily duped as people in many other states."

Ummm, You got duped alright, but just by your own confused brain instead!
Ehrlich did NOT deregulate BGE! HAHA! How stupid!

The Democrats in the State Legislature headed by then Gov. Paris Glendenning did!
No Republican past or present had anything to do with deregulation at ALL! HAHA!

See, you wonder why Maryland voters keep voting in the same old politicos every election.

Because they are DUMB AS A ROCK! HAHA!

By the way, for the record, The Baltimore Sun preferred Ehrlich's compromise deal with BGE over O'Malley's proposed deal as Ehrlich's deal would have actually lowered energy rates and given consumers more choice, but Ehrlich's deal never happened because he was voted out of office, so everything you have currently is O'Malley's and ONLY O'Malley's FAULT!

Ultimately, O'Malley failed to get a deal at all with CEG/BGE and the company is doing whatever the hell it wants to to rate payers while O'Malley stomps up and down crying like an ineffective little baby. But don't worry, O'Malley cares lots about the poor and middle class.
Why else would he be screwing them over so much? HAHA!

I remember going to a rally for O'Malley and someone asking him what he was going to do about the cost of higher education. He went on and on about
how he was going to reduce the cost to help the people of MD. I jumped all over that since I had two college bound teens. Since O'malley took office the cost has risen every single year. Guess those college Deans needed those million dollar salaries. Come to think of it, I can't think of anything O'Malley has done for Maryland. Well we did get a new sign showing where the State Park was.

But forget O'Malley; watch out for Hoyer. Charles Lollar will be the new Congressman from Maryland.

CharmCityLights said "Ehrlich deregulated BGE"????

Really? Where was Ehrlich in 1999?

Voters Ignorance rings true again!

well for a democrat not to win in massachusetts is sending shockwaves through the white house . And to charm city lights Bob Ehrlich did not deregulate BGE it was the democrats who have taxed and spend maryland into the deficit we have today . And while OOhmalley and the other two stooges miller and busch vote themselves $ 10.000 a year raises and recently tried to do it again . Marylanders are easily duped look at the career of the stealth senator sarbanes if he was paid on the he actually was inwashington he would have made about 25.000 grand a year. As long as candidate has a D next party affiliation that person has a 75% chance of getting elected no matter how incompetent they are . The people are afraid of real change in this state with more taxes on the way we keep electing morons like busch and oohmalley, The dems held up the slots bill because Bob wasnt an democrat so thats a major reason the horse racing industry is dying , and when the preakness is gone and moved to santa anita park in california i guess only then the dems will get off there butts . We are a reactionary state not progressive one we wait while other states already have slots and other gaming . God only knows how many millions of dollars maryland is losing in potential tax revenue nj, del, pa,wva . All have gaming years ahead of us all because Bob Ehrlich wasnt an moronic head in sand democrat. Way to go democrat leadership of maryland we could have had slots in already.And it was former governor parris spendenning who deregulated BGE with miller and cas taylor

They are both DUDS!

If you believe ANYTHING written in theis socialist rag then you are one of the naive sheep.

BAH!

I still wonder how a lot of people say that Ehrlich left this state in debt. When in truth he took a $4 billion deficit and turned it into a $1.6 Billion surplus.

I say, if Ehrlich gets elected for a 2nd round... I say he should start cutting democrat-sponsored programs and bring the democrats to their knees.

Other states allow unaffiliateds to vote in primaries. THAT is why Maryland lags behind in unaffilated registrants.

The following highly suggests that omalley is a shill for zionist banks:

On Nov. 27, 2007, an ultra-hyped, one-day Mideast parley was held in Annapolis, MD, the capital of the state. This is also where the U.S. Naval Academy is located. The idea that the hawkish Bush-Cheney Gang is going to successfully broker an Israel/Palestine peace is absurd. In a show-off-like gesture Maryland's Governor, Martin O'Malley invited Israel's Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, for lunch on that day. But, he deliberately chose to exclude the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. The luncheon took place in the Governor's Mansion. O'Malley, instead of acting like a statesman, came off as a lackey for the Israel Lobby, while also embarrassing many Marylanders.

James J. Zogby was right to take strong exception to Gov. O'Malley's boorish conduct. He said: "This was a perfect time to build that tie [with the Palestinian community] and to send a message to both parties that the governor is committed to peace. In diplomacy, everything matters, so if you're invited to someone's state and you're there to make peace with someone and the person you're making peace with isn't invited, it sends a message, and that message is one of slight." (1) Mr. Zogby, an activist, is the President of the Arab American Institute.

This isn't the first occasion that Gov. O'Malley's sucking up to the Israel Lobby has caused Marylanders to cringe. Last summer, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) invaded Lebanon, with little justification, and began bombing the country back to the Stone Age. They dropped over 1,000,000 cluster bombs there. During this bloodstained campaign, the IDF specifically targeted the village of Qana (Cana) for attack and reportedly killed 28 civilians, mostly women and children. (2) This is the site where, according to the Holy Bible, Jesus performed his first miracle. So how did Gov. O'Malley, a wannabe diplomat, respond to the IDF's invasion? Well, he showed up at a pro-Olmert, pro-Israel rally, which was held in Baltimore, to loudly cheerlead for the rampaging Zionist hordes. Since then, both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have charged Olmert's Israel with "War Crimes" for its alleged barbarous conduct in Lebanon.

On Nov. 27th, I was in Annapolis covering the demonstration, at the Naval Academy, near Gate 1. I was upset that Olmert was even in the city. If it were up to me, he would have never been permitted to step foot in America. His regime's egregious wrongdoings in Lebanon, and also Israel's abysmal treatment of the Palestinian people for over four decades of human rights abuses, are just two reasons why. Israeli-Occupied Gaza is a hell on earth for its residents. (4) When its 1.4 million citizens were being besieged daily by lethal missile strikes from the IDF, Olmert's limp defense was: "Nobody dies from being uncomfortable!"

Then, for me, there is the matter of Annapolis itself. My first memory of this picturesque port city goes back to just after WWII. Sitting on the Severn River, it is steeped in the history of the Republic. It was in the State House, located across the street from the Governor's Mansion, where General George Washington, the hero of the War for Independence, resigned his commission, on Dec. 23, 1783, as the leader of the Continental Army. For a short period, Annapolis was even the capital of the United States.

Getting back to the protest action, I was pleased to see Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, of Neturei Karta International, there. He is a fearless opponent of the ideology of Zionism. (5) All of this, brings me to the issue of the IDF, its murderous attack on the USS Liberty in 1967, and the ongoing 40 years-plus struggle for justice by the survivors of that vessel, and their supporters.

On June 8, 1967, 34 Americans on the USS Liberty were slaughtered by the IDF, including one Marylander, William B. Allenbaugh, (CT-3, U.S. Navy). Two of its slain crew members, Lt. Commander Philip McCutcheson Armstrong, Jr. and Lt. Stephen Spencer Toth, were graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy. The Zionist Propaganda Machine has insisted the attack, which took place in international waters, was "an accident." This is the same dubious excuse used to justify the IDF using a 60-ton bulldozer to run over and kill peace activist Rachel Corrie, at Rafah, Occupied Palestine, on March 16, 2003. She was a resident of Olympia, WA, who was trying to stop a Palestinian home from being destroyed by the IDF. Ms. Corrie was only 23 years old. The Israeli bulldozer, all 60 tons of it, ran over her not once--but twice!

Now, new evidence suggests that the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty was "deliberate!" (8) This is the position that Lt. James Marquis Ennes, Jr., who was on the bridge of the ship on that fateful day, has consistently taken. (9) Lt. Ennes is also the author of a best selling book on the tragedy, "Assault on the Liberty." As a result of the peace confab, Prime Minister Olmert was allowed on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Academy. I think that was a gross insult to the memory of the 34 men killed by the Israelis on the USS Liberty. This is especially so, since the mostly cowardly U.S. Congress has never given the survivors of that vicious and deadly attack, in which 174 men were also wounded, a hearing "to tell their story under oath to the American public."

Finally, when Gov. O'Malley and Olmert surfaced from their luncheon, they gave each other a big hug. The governor boasted that he and Olmert had discussed "national politics." Gov. O'Malley is the honorary chair in MD of U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton's presidential candidacy. But, you'd better believe Gov. O'Malley never confronted Prime Minister Olmert about what happened at Qana last summer; the massive cluster bombing, in 2006, of Lebanon by the IDF; what life is really like for the oppressed peoples of Gaza; the fate of the 34 crew members on the USS Liberty, including William B. Allenbaugh's; Rachel Corrie's tragic death; and/or the speculation about those "five dancing Israelis on 9/11." (10) If he did bring any subject like that up, I doubt that Olmert would have given Gov. O'Malley a big hug. Running him over with a 60-ton bulldozer would have been more like it.

O Malley is guilty of treason for participating in the Council of Governors:

In a previous article, I sounded the alarm regarding some of Soetoro most dangerous Executive Orders signed this year. In this case, I am referring to the formal creation of a Governors Council and their role in the very possible further demise of States' Rights. Although according to Soetoro it has been fluffed-up and sugar-coated as nothing more that an Advisory council of 10 Governors to meet on various issues. Let us look at the geographic locations of these Governors and its relevance to the bigger picture.

Let me start out by stating that I have never and will never believe in coincidences. I don't believe that it is any coincidence that decades ago our Federal Government agreed to a mandate by the United Nations to consolidate from 50 States into 10 Federal Regions. It is no wonder in the process that has been going on behind the scenes that our 50 states have lost most of their once Constitutionally sovereign power over the intrusion of federal authority. Now as we find ourselves in the full-blown execution phase of the UN's plans for our country that we behold a Presidential Executive Order to appoint 10 Governors to a new Council that has been formalized.

Let me further illustrate the significance of these 10 appointments to this Council of Governors as it relates to the known 10 Federal regions which were originally created by yet another Executive Order #11647 by President Richard Nixon back on Feb. 14, 1972. We can first look at these 10 regions and the appointment of these particular 10 Governors that were chosen and see how it all fits in with the geography.

Here are the 10 picks for this new Council of Governors. With only one exception, they have been chosen from different federal regions.

Governor James H. Douglas of Vermont - Region 1

Governor Luis Fortuna of Puerto Rico - Region 2

Governor Robert McDonnell of Virginia - Region 3

Governor Beverly Eaves Purdue of North Carolina - Region 4

Governor Brad Henry of Oklahoma - Region 6

Governor Jeremiah Nixon of Missouri - Region 7

Governor Mike Rounds of South Dakota - Region 8

Governor Janice Brewer of Arizona - Region 9

Governor Chris Gregoire of Washington - Region 10

Governor Martin O'Malley of Maryland - Region 3

Could it be by accident that almost all of those nominated happen to come from different federal regions?

Perhaps we should all call our "good" Governors listed above and have them explain to us the exact need and purpose of their new appointments. Maybe it is better for South Dakota that Mike Rounds is not running for re-election. It seems he will be busy Governing on a Federal "Regional" level instead of one of our 50 sovereign United States.

For a different angle on this story and the additional recognized danger of this Council as it pertains to the transferring of all authority to the Federal Government of our States' National Guard units, please see full article on World Net Daily. I would also like to give them credit for publishing which 10 Governors have been appointed.