Giorgio: Why Martin O’Malley Can Win
Wednesday, June 03, 2015
O'Malley is a different generation than Hillary Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Both Sanders and O'Malley will be fighting for the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. The difference between the two, beside generational, is that O'Malley has always been a democrat and Sanders never has been. At the end of the day the primary is about party politics.
O'Malley has been there. Sanders has always been above party politics.
A former mayor.
Although he was born in 1963, O'Malley is somewhat of an heir to the old democratic politics. He is a graduate of the Catholic University and went to the University of Maryland law school. Early in his career, O'Malley challenged the first term incumbent state senator and lost, much like Barack Obama. After that defeat, O'Malley ran for the Baltimore city council, won the election and served 8 years before running for mayor. In that election, O'Malley won the primary with 58 % of the vote and the general election with 90%.
After serving two terms he ran for governor against the incumbnant republican, who he handily defeated O'Malley was re elected in 2006’ vesting the former republican governor by 14 points.
O’Malley is what the Democrats need.
O'Malley is just what the Democratic Party needs to keep the presidency. He is a true progressive from a southern border state. He will run to the left of Hillary Clinton.
And unlike Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Independent Senator, O’Malley is a Democrat and has always been one. Sanders just recently registered as a member of the Democratic Party.
O’Malley has been a strong supporter of families, including equal pay for equal work. He was a leader in the fight for marriage equality. Long before Clinton, O’Malley supported the ballot question in Maryland which granted marriage equality. O’Malley supports a fair minimum wage. He believes that we can grow the economy by paying those at the bottom more. He also supported a law which gave in state tuition to the children of immigrants.
He is much like Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Senator, and is not afraid to take on Wall Street. In fact in his announcement he took on the President of Goldman Sachs for saying that both Clinton and Bush were ok with him.
O’Malley has a lot going for him.
O’Malley has a few things going for him. He is the first former Democratic big city mayor to run for president in a long time. He also brings executive experience having been a governor.
But more important than those two things are the fact that he comes from a border state, Maryland. This could help him in southern primaries. The other thing that O’Malley has going for him is generational. O’Malley is 52, while both Clinton and Sanders are much older.
Right now, O’Malley is trailing both Clinton and Sanders, but watch him move up. Sanders is only doing well because he was the only alternative to Hillary Clinton. O’Malley now becomes that alternative with his entrance into the race.
O’Malley, will soon become the viable alternative and once that happens, watch his poll numbers climb. Currently, the polls are only an indication of name recognition, as people tune in, the numbers will shift.
While Hillary Clinton is the odds on favorite to win the Democratic nomination for President don’t count out Martin O’Malley yet. He is smart, personable, an Irish catholic and young. Does that sound like anybody else who may have been president?
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