Larry Hogan and Ben Jealous
The first results are in from the new joint poll from Baltimore’s 126-year-old African-American newspaper, The Afro, and Morgan State University, and they indicate black Marylanders are unsurprisingly backing former NAACP president Ben Jealous in the gubernatorial election.
Were the election held today, the poll found, 57 percent of likely African-American voters in Maryland would pick Jealous, who’s running on a progressive Democratic platform against incumbent GOP Gov. Larry Hogan. Around 30 percent of the same demographic said they’d vote for or are leaning toward voting for Hogan, which a release noted was “an unexpectedly large percentage” that could boost Hogan’s chances for a second term.
However, Ray Winbush, director of Morgan State’s Urban Research Institute and a research professor there, said in a statement that Hogan’s low mark stands in contrast to “campaign ads that make it appear that Black and Democratic voters are overwhelmingly choosing Hogan over Jealous.”
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