I agree but it’s too late. He should have bailed on Maryland 20 years ago and gone somewhere that he could have a shot and established some credibility there.
He was never going to be elected in Maryland or anyplace north from there.
At his age (in his 50’s) there’s no time to be seen as anything but a carpetbagger anywhere else and still have time to build up credibility.
Since Mississippi has no role, I’ll vote for him next month as a protest vote - I was an active supporter in ‘96 and 2000 - but his window (which was always very tiny) has long since closed.
—He was never going to be elected in Maryland or anyplace north from there.—
True enough. Keyes’ heart (and ideology) is in the right place, but he comes across as a bit daft. Not many people are going to elect the Prophet Jeremiah to office these days; certainly not in the Northeast, rust belt (IL) or mid-Atlantic.