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Presidential Election 2012

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Barack Obama Wins Maryland

Voters in Maryland on Tuesday gave the state's 10 electoral votes to Barack Obama.

Barack Obama won Maryland’s 10 electoral votes on Tuesday, defeating Republican Mitt Romney. In the 2008 presidential election, the state voted for the Democratic candidate, and since the 1990s has voted for the overall winner of the presidential race three out of five times. Romney and Obama did not campaign aggressively in Maryland. The state has typically been a Democratic stronghold in recent presidential elections.  ABC and CNN reported Obama had won Maryland within 30 minutes of the polls closing around the state. » Follow live election updates here and 'like' our Maryland Patch Facebook page. Women's rights at the national level were a key issue for some in Maryland, including Edgemere resident Trudie Stancliff. "I know of a lot of …

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Maryland Readies for Romney's Sole Visit to the State

The town hall at the American Legion post in Arbutus is the GOP hopeful's only appearance in the state before the April 3 primary.

The campaign staff of Republican presidential primary contender Mitt Romney has trimmed his appearances in Maryland in advance of the state's April 3 primary, canceling two previously scheduled events but keeping a town hall at Dewey Lowman American Legion Post 109 in Arbutus. On the day before the town hall, crews were busy at the American Legion setting up chairs and lights in anticipation of the crowd of hundreds that is expected. The town hall is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. The Romney campaign had announced appearances in Annapolis on Wednesday morning and another in Frederick, MD, in the evening. Both events were canceled without explanation, leaving the Arbutus town hall as Romney's only public presence in Maryland before the …

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