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2016 Postmortem

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elleng

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Sun Jan 10, 2016, 03:50 PM Jan 2016

Clinton or Sanders? Check out Martin O'Malley. [View all]

'Why can’t the media give Martin O’Malley a fair shake? From the few words he was allowed to utter in the Democratic presidential debates, he looks like the strongest candidate. He polls low because no one knows anything about him.

Are the ups and downs of the Clinton/Sanders horse race really more important than our country’s next four years?

O’Malley doesn’t carry any of the Clinton baggage. He hasn’t forgotten climate change. He has more concrete plans than rhetoric.
He’s younger than the other two candidates. He has Homeland Security credentials, having chaired the U.S. Conference of Mayors Homeland Security Task Force.

As mayor of Baltimore from 2000 to 2006, O’Malley reduced crime, achieved the city's first budget surplus in decades while cutting property taxes to the lowest level in 30 years. He was named by Time magazine “one of America’s top five big city mayors.”

During his governorship from 2007 to 2015, Maryland recovered all the jobs lost during the recession, reduced the cost of college tuition, maintained the best public schools in America for five straight years, invested in renewable energy and green jobs, repealed the death penalty, passed one of the toughest firearms laws in the nation, expanded pre-K education, and increased the state’s minimum wage for most workers to $10.10/hour.

Why is this candidate being left out in the cold?'

http://www.roanoke.com/opinion/letters/peckman-clinton-or-sanders-check-out-martin-o-malley/article_0aa1e6b2-da80-5d26-8b6b-72b0841a4f6d.html

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K&R one_voice Jan 2016 #1
Yes, it's a damn shame he has been shut out. His voice needs to be heard. antigop Jan 2016 #2
You're welcome, antigop. elleng Jan 2016 #3
Yes, thanks and keep it up, Elleng. This is not the last Hortensis Jan 2016 #7
Marty Is A Buffer between Bernie And Hillary While Secondarily IF NOT PRIMARILY CorporatistNation Jan 2016 #13
My hionest opinion? I think.... Armstead Jan 2016 #4
IMO, MOM's problem was marketing, and a Hortensis Jan 2016 #9
The sincerity factor is STRONG with Sanders. MoM had no NorthCarolina Jan 2016 #11
Young, good looking, newblewtoo Jan 2016 #5
+1 one_voice Jan 2016 #8
The O'Malley fiasco in Ohio has caused me much concern with MO'M. 99Forever Jan 2016 #6
this was never meant to be a real primary restorefreedom Jan 2016 #10
k one_voice Jan 2016 #12
O'Malley's problem is that he's a lot of people's second choice. Jim Lane Jan 2016 #14
Right that elleng Jan 2016 #15
The biggest reason I support Bernie Sanders Eric J in MN Jan 2016 #22
Hillary was suppose to get through the primary sleep walking. The entire process was rigged for JRLeft Jan 2016 #16
Right, and now EVERYONE's 'nervous.' elleng Jan 2016 #17
All of the cheating and obstacles for her opponents and she hasn't put this thing away yet. JRLeft Jan 2016 #18
NO WAY for ANYONE to 'put this thing away' elleng Jan 2016 #19
If Bernie wins Iowa and New Hampshire, he probably makes up a lot ground in the south. JRLeft Jan 2016 #20
Not sure how that would work, elleng Jan 2016 #21
If Bernie Sanders wins both IA and NH, then he'll get more donations Eric J in MN Jan 2016 #23
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