{"id":8076,"date":"2017-06-04T16:14:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8076"},"modified":"2017-06-04T16:14:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:14:06","slug":"democratic-gubernatorial-straw-poll-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8076","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Gubernatorial Straw Poll Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/AA-Straw-Poll.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8077\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/AA-Straw-Poll.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1216\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/AA-Straw-Poll.jpeg 1216w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/AA-Straw-Poll-300x127.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/AA-Straw-Poll-768x325.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/AA-Straw-Poll-1024x434.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1216px) 100vw, 1216px\" \/><\/a>State Sen. Rich Madaleno (D 18) emerged as the surprise winner of the online poll held by the Anne Arundel Democratic Central Committee, coming in first support from about one-third of people who clicked for their choice.<\/p>\n<p>It probably didn&#8217;t hurt that Madaleno recently attended the District 30 Democratic Club meeting, as well as the Anne Arundel Central Committee Dinner. Other candidates at the dinner included Prince George&#8217;s County Executive Rushern Baker, former AG Doug Gansler, former NAACP President Ben Jealous, and Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. John Delaney (D 6) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/md-politics\/delaney-wins-gubernatorial-straw-poll-of-democratic-activists-in-western-md\/2017\/04\/29\/2b8fb64e-2b72-11e7-a616-d7c8a68c1a66_story.html?utm_term=.c0c4383ab1d2\">won the Western Maryland straw poll<\/a> held in April, with 35% of the 166 participants&#8211;less of a shock as Delaney represents this area in Congress. In any case, based on these totally non-random, non-representative samples, it appears that even active Democrats are quite divided, which should make for an interesting primary season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Sen. Rich Madaleno (D 18) emerged as the surprise winner of the online poll held by the Anne Arundel Democratic Central Committee, coming in first support from about one-third of people who clicked for their choice. It probably didn&#8217;t hurt that Madaleno recently attended the District 30 Democratic Club meeting, as well as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8076\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democratic Gubernatorial Straw Poll Results<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anne-arundel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-26g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8078,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions\/8078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}