O'Malley might be all bark and no bite: not a good thing in a real dog fight.

I think Martin needs to be a bit more worried about the real problems we're facing. I had lunch with my cousin, who works for the campaign yesterday. He told me that an internal poll conducted by Martin's pollster now puts our Scottish friend Douglas within 6 percentage points. And this by our own in house pollster! Maybe this is the real reason he invited young Mr. Epstein to leave.

I'm worried that the margin may be even less.

But then again, I've always loved a good horserace. Seems though that Douglas has plenty of time to narrow the gap and Martin has given him plenty to work with. A lot of problems there laddie...no real solutions.

Sounds like we need a few debates to settle this.

seamus, please keep the fiction of the board. "I had lunch with my cousin" ..yeah right, nice try. More like you were asigned a task by the Duncan folks. pathetic.

I was at the Germantown townhall meeting and was shocked by the rowdy behaviour of a handful of blacks. The black man sitting just behind me was smelling of alcohol. Other blacks appeared to be vagabonds or thugs. Now the truth is out-- Duncan campaign actually bused a group of blacks from Baltimore, and we know why their behavior was designed to disrupt O'Malley's townhall meeting.

Ridiculous, but its sad. If booze is injected into the campaign and drunks are 'used' for mob tactics, some untoward or tragic incident is just waiting to happen!

Merlin--your post is offensive. Why is race relevant? Well, let me answer that: it isn't.

I did not intend to be offensive. The drunk Baltimore city resident berated O'Malley for his decision to meet with "WHITE" residents of Montgomery County rather than blacks in Baltimore.

The responsibility for injecting race into the campaign rests squarely on Mr. Duncan, who deliberately bused protesters from Balitmore who were ALL black.

You know, this is the second time that Duncan has paid a group of people to attend an event for Duncan.

If a candidate is truly popular, they have no need to resort to these stupid pay-for-play moves.

At this point, I guess it's tough for Duncan to even fill a small classroom with his supporters.

Where the hell does it say that these people were PAID?!?!? Bus Service was provided to them by the Duncan campaign... but they were not paid.

By making up lies like this, it makes O'Malley staffers look stupid... not to mention merlin's racist comments.

"I had lunch with my cousin..." hahaha
good one.

Is O'Malley still too afraid to debate DD? What's his claim now--the race is toof ar away?

So let's get this straight. O'Malley is angry that Duncan paid for a bus to bring in O'Malley residents who are angry he's in Montgomery County when their city is falling apart at the seams. Oh yah, then his campaign supporters come on here calling these people poor vagabond black thugs-- if that doesn't speak volumes about O'Malley's campaign then I'm not sure what does.

When crime has been on the increase in Baltimore this spring, when the school system administration has had several problems, when you've got stabbings happening in Baltimore City schools, etc--that's a probably a good time to stay in your home city doing your job. Show you're ready for the next job by doing the first one right. Let's be honest, if Martin was in Annapolis, he'd actually be traveling the country for his next move--to Washington.

And if Martin wins the election then who takes over as Mayor? That's right, Sheila Dixon.

The DC Board of Trade is hosting a debate between DD and O'M later this month in Bethesda. Actually, it's the 3rd debate between the 2 candidates. Unfortunately, all of the debates so far have been with
'business'groups which charge admission.
I find it pretty sad that DD has to bus people in from Baltimore to assault the Mayor. I wish someone would pay for my travel to Baltimore to tell the voters there the truth about DD.

I am very glad to see Duncan's numbers rising in the polls. I think he has overcome some major barriers in the past few weeks. I cannot understand why people still feel that O'Malley is the better candidate. Compare Baltimore & Montgomery County. Where would you rather live? The MoCo schools are some of the best in the nation.

On another note, why will O'Malley not debate Duncan? Is that afraid of him? I don't know much about O'Malley, but I would think he would be a decent debater. Does anyone know why he won't debate?