Living in Maryland means recognizing that Maryland is one of the bluest of blue states. It is a state with a large population of federal government workers and has not voted for a Republican for president since 1988. Maryland has not had a Republican senator since the liberal Republican Charles Mathias retired in 1987.
Even more to the left than the state as a whole is Montgomery County, Maryland’s most populous county, and one of America’s most progressive. Kamala Harris won 74 percent of the vote there, eleven points higher than her statewide score. Montgomery County has never had a Republican city council president in its history. Republicans have not had a majority on the city council since Lyndon Johnson was president in the 1960s.
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