Political birds of a feather tend to flock together but a recent poll finds one members of one party report a higher percentage of friends in the opposition.

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Delegate Heather Mizeur has run the best campaign of any candidate in either party. But she probably cannot overcome her main target: her own Democratic Party.

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Del. Luiz Simmons said he will run for state Senate rather than seek a fourth term in the Maryland House of Delegates.

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DENVER — In a bitter fight, Colorado Democrats recently muscled through the Statehouse a massive elections reform bill that allows voters to register up until Election Day and still cast their ballots. It’s the latest — and most substantial — ...

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The last 18 months of Gov. Martin O’Malley’s life might seem like a dream.

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A few government and politics headlines around the state on Deadline Day for registering to vote in Maryland.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley is urging Democratic Party activists to get fully behind President Barack Obama in the next two months. O’Malley is chairman of the Democratic Governors Association and is considered a likely 2016 presidential ...

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Here's a few Monday morning headlines as the Republican National Convention, and the presumptive nomination of Mitt Romney as the party's candidate for president of the United States, gets started ...

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ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland Democratic Party has filed a complaint against the Maryland State Board of Elections relating to the validation process of signatures in a petition drive against the state’s congressional redistricting map. David Sloan, the party’s executive director, ...

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Maryland will become the next state to permit same-sex couples to marry this year if Gov. Martin O’Malley’s new pledge of support for the legislation is worth at least the few Democratic House votes by which the measure fell short ...

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