Hogan’s margin in MD was nowhere near 9%; it was 4.62%. The New York Times and media outlets that share info with it gave overcounted Hogan’s total in Ann Arundel County by 80,000 (!) votes. The MD SoS site has Hogan carrying Ann Arundel by 113,970 to 54.133 (66.63% in the county for Hogan, which is as good as one would expect in a county that doesn’t give GOP presidential candidates much above 50%), and statewide the SoS gives Hogan 847,280 to Brown’s 771,242 (for a 51.46% to 46.84% margin). http://results.elections.maryland.gov/elections/results_data/index.html
The NYT, by giving Hogan 193,970 votes (instead of 113,970) in Ann Arundel (someone mistyped a 9 for a 1), gave him over 77% in Ann Arundel (an absurd percentage) and thus turned his actual 4.62% statewide margin to a fantastic 9%.
So, basically, Hogan ran about even with Ehrlich’s 2002 run. And the NY Times sucks.
Wow.
” the NY Times sucks.”
Not worthy of being used to house train a puppy.