Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin won re-election to the U.S. Senate, defeating Republican Dan Bongino and independent Rob Sobhani.
Cardin received 53 percent of the vote, while Bongino had 28 percent and Sobhani had 17 percent just before midnight on Tuesday.
Cardin celebrated his re-election with other prominent Democrats at a lounge in M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. In his victory speech, Cardin praised GOP candidate Bongino for running a clean campaign, while saying Sobhani did not.
Sobhani, who had previously run as a Republican, reportedly spent more than $4 million to run as an independent and was criticized recently for his last-minute robocalls to potential voters.
“I gained a great deal of respect for Dan Bongino,” Cardin said.
Bongino, the former secret service agent from Severna Park, also said the Cardin campaign was a "class act." He spoke to Cardin as the results came in, and congratulated him on the victory.
"He has been a gentleman, he has been a class act," Bongino said. "We may have political differences, we have from the beginning, but we actually became close friends toward the end."
In an interview following his victory speech, Cardin said he is looking forward to getting back to work and was hopeful the Senate would address pressing issues in the coming lame duck session.
He also expressed enthusiasm for returning to work with his party still in the majority.
“I think we had great candidates who ran fantastic campaigns that really connected with the voters," Cardin said.
Wrong, try again.
And yes, education is appalling in this country when it comes to politics and education. It's all run by Texas. It's where they print textbooks, and as a note, is the litmus for what other states get, because nobody's printing 50 different versions of a book. Also. . . no matter how good our education is, the big corporate media (and this this means Fox AND CNN) works to undo anything you'd have learned in school anyway, especially if it's right. The only thing I saw in the national election (assuming you mean the president) was a lack of choices. The two big parties put up nearly the same person, and well, the third parties get ignored as usual. As for the senate race that started this discussion. . . Not really much better. The most prominent[0] third party candidate was even a douchebag. I couldn't win! [0] Who had to spend an assload of $ to be prominent.
You have got to get used to life in a postindustrial capitalist society. Structural unemployment caused by the migration of capital is going to be with us for a very long time. It will test our concept of what it means to be a citizen and test our sense of the value of our fellow citizens. The legitimacy of the taxing authority of the federal government was settled for most of us a long time ago. Hasn't that happened for you, Dubya?
In reality, most of those issues don't matter at the end of the day, and the ones that do. . . well, we're too busy paying attention to the puppets on the hands to realize there's two unified boots kicking the crap out of us.
More problematic for republicans is we had a miserable economy, but slowly improving and the Republicans could not pin the poor economy on the President. As long as Republicans have to go hard right to get nominated and then flip flop to the middle fr the general election they are doomed. That's just the facts ma'am.
One of the first things you have said i can agree with 100%. Playing to the the bible thumpers in the south and mid west is done. I predict the Republican party will drop the Social Conservatives like a hot rock by 2014.
Yet in what counties is that wealth concentrated? Which Schools are the best? and how does that correlate to the vote totals Obama received in those areas? I await your informed analysis.
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/post-election-sell-off-isn-t-over-why-152606154.html