What You Get When You Don't Vote - A Continuing Series

Maryland Gov.-elect Larry "Bulk" Hogan recently met with local (Montgomery County) Maryland business and civic leaders, and decided to get things off on the good foot:

“Now, I realize that Montgomery County was one of the three lonely counties that unfortunately voted the wrong way from the entire rest of the state,” said Hogan (R), referring to Maryland’s two other Democratic strongholds, Prince George’s County and the city of Baltimore, carried by his opponent, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown (D).

Why be a humble winner when you can be a dick?

First, a reality check.  Brown actually carried 4 of the most populous jurisdictions in the State: Montgomery, Prince George's and Charles Counties and the City of Baltimore.  Bulk cleaned up in rural, yokel Maryland. Also, Bulk's total vote (844,400, or a "landslide" 51%) represented approximately 19 percent of registered voters in Maryland.  "The entire rest of the state," indeed.

This is a wonderful object lesson for what happens when Democrats don't get out to vote.  You get a smug Chamber of Commerce Republican in the Governor's Mansion.

(Photo: Maryland Gov.-elect Larry "Bulk" Hogan - oink.)