Maryland Democrats seem to know something the party elite don't.

Van Hollen's Rockville Office Puts Up Fight Against Nonstop Fox News - washingtonpost.com

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley's endorsement of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) for president apparently held little sway with fellow Democrats participating in an online poll sponsored by the Maryland Democratic Party.

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was the top vote getter, capturing 25.7 percent of the 4,117 online ballots cast in the poll, which ended Tuesday. He was followed by former vice president Al Gore, who is not currently running, with 21.3 percent.

Clinton finished third, with 18.4 percent. She was followed by former North Carolina senator John Edwards, with 14.4 percent. Edwards has been called the most electable Democrat by state Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert).

No other Democratic hopeful received more than 10 percent of the vote.

-- John Wagner

Well for a non campaign I do not believe that Gore could run a better one............



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Others may build bigger & better; yet DeMatha still wins........

Leveling the Private Playing Field - washingtonpost.com

Leveling the Private Playing Field
Sports Facility Construction Booming at Area High Schools

By Josh Barr
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 16, 2007; Page E01

Entrenched as the most prominent athletic powerhouse among Washington area high schools, DeMatha finally plans to catch up with some of its peers when it comes to sports facilities. The Hyattsville Catholic school hopes to break ground next year on a $9 million convocation center that includes a gymnasium and is in discussions to have artificial turf practice and game fields installed at off-campus sites.

The improvements merely will keep DeMatha in step with many of the region's private schools, which are in the midst of a spending spree to build top-flight athletic facilities that would be the envy of many colleges.

Let just note that this article leads off with the one school that does not even have a football practice field let alone a football stadium. When I went there way back in the days we wrestled in a classroom. Guess what year after year Dematha has been in the top ten if not number one positions in the Washington Post polls and the only school locally to consistently show up in the USA Today Top 25 teams.

I often use this example when I hear people talking about the need for more facilities when the most superior sports program -DeMatha's- has the sports facilities of my daughters public school in DC. A think I better get out the check book all the more since like so many DeMatha graduates I have pride in my school and what they have done with what they have.

To all those building the super facilities keep it up we like it when you have a nice place for DeMatha teams to come whip your butts......


NRJ Class of 1982


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