EMAIL DETAILS

Maryland not wild about O'Malley 2016
4

Comments (4)
By ALEXANDER BURNS | 10/23/12 12:11 PM EDT
His poll ratings are still in positive territory, but Martin O'Malley's job approval has dipped in the latest Washington Post poll and Marylanders lean pretty strongly against him as a presidential candidate:
The Post poll suggests that O’Malley has not yet convinced Maryland voters that he is ready for the Oval Office.
In the poll, 22 percent of registered voters say O’Malley would make a good president, while 62 percent say he would not. Sixteen percent have no opinion.
Just 32 percent of self-identified Democrats and 41 percent of those who approve of O’Malley’s performance as governor think he would make a good president. Republicans and those who disapprove of O’Malley are united in their belief that he is ill-suited for the Oval Office.
It's fairly common for states to like governors more as governors than as presidential candidates; polls showed that phenomenon at work in New Jersey last year when Chris Christie was thinking about a national campaign. There's also an inherent risk in trying to build yourself up nationally at the same time you're running a state, which is why you haven't seen certain other governors leave, say, the state of New York.


Eric D. Schwerin
Rosemont Seneca Partners, LLC
1010 Wisconsin Ave., NW
Suite 705
Washington, DC 20007
(202) 333-1880
eschwerin@rosemontseneca.com
P Consider the environment before printing this email.