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Arundel's George seeks to jump from delegate to governor

With the season for legislating over in Maryland as of last Monday, the season for raising cash for campaigns has begun.

Former U.S. Senate candidate Dan Bongino will not apply for the Anne Arundel County executive position or the Maryland GOP chairmanship, he said Monday.

By resigning ahead of a vote to remove him, former Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold may hold onto his county pension, officials said.

John R. Leopold stepped down Friday as Anne Arundel County executive, bringing an apparent end to the decades-long career of an idiosyncratic and charismatic force in Maryland politics who as recently as a year ago was considering a run for statewide office.

The Maryland Conservative Action Network's keynote speaker is well-known Islamophobe Pamela Geller.

With more than 16,500 early voters and the highest number of registered voters in Harford's history polling locations saw record turnouts Tuesday for the 2012 presidential election.

Carroll County voters turned out in strong numbers for the Nov. 6 general election, with more than 75 percent of eligible voters casting ballots either on election day or in early voting sessions last week.

For the first time in its history, Cecil County will have a county executive and, based on early unofficial election returns from Tuesday night, Republican Tari Moore will be the first to hold that office.

Democrats did well in Howard County on election day, winning at levels ranging from the Congress to the White House

Early returns from a busy day of voting in Harford County Tuesday showed Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney with a comfortable lead over President Barack Obama, while the three most controversial statewide ballot questions were being soundly rejected.

U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin won a second term Tuesday despite a spirited and well-funded campaign from one opponent and a multimillion-dollar advertising blitz from another.

It was almost anti-climactic at the polls in Westminster on Tuesday afternoon. After a year of robo-calls, tons of campaign literature, debates and nonstop news coverage, election day came to Carroll County, and reports indicate heavy and steady voter turnout.

Harford County's 75 polling places opened at 7 a.m. sharp Tuesday, as presidential Election Day 2012 arrived across the United States.

Baltimore Sun reporters stationed across Maryland provide live updates on Election Day.

The number of early voters in Howard County was the highest ever recorded in the county, but more than 80-percent of registered voters still have the option of heading to the polls Tuesday.

After months of being bombarded by slick advertising, celebrity endorsements and candidate pleas, it is Maryland voters who will turn out to the polls today — in large numbers, according to one estimate — to have the final word.

Candidates for office and advocates for some of Maryland's hard-fought ballot questions hit the streets Sunday in a final bid to drum up votes in Tuesday's election.

Maryland voters should return Ben Cardin to the U.S. Senate

Despite a multi-million dollar advertising blitz from one challenger and an aggressive grassroots campaign from another, Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin remains among the safest incumbents in the nation as he runs this year for a second term, a new poll for The Baltimore Sun finds.

Four candidates for U.S. Senate faced one another in a debate this morning that was broadcast live by WOLB — the first exchange in the race to reach a wide audience.

Gov. Martin O'Malley's younger brother and one-time confidant has apparently split with the governor on two issues, backing a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate and signing a petition to put the state's same-sex marriage law on the November ballot.

Baltimore television stations were expecting little in the way of political advertising this campaign year. Then the fight over expanded gambling in Maryland erupted, pitting deep-pocketed and competing casino companies against one another.

Incumbent Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin is up with his first television ad of the general election -- a spot that begins airing during tonight's playoff game between the Orioles and the Yankees.

WASHINGTON -- Maryland GOP Senate candidate Daniel Bongino will report raising at least $650,000 for his campaign since July, a significantly larger haul than he has had in any quarter since announcing his candidacy last year.

Rob Sobhani, the Montgomery County businessman who announced an independent run for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Ben Cardin only this month, has leapt to a statistical tie for second place in the race, according to a Gonzalez poll of Maryland voters released Wednesday.

Rob Sobhani, an independent who turned in 77,000 signatures to the state Board of Elections to get his name on the Nov. 6 ballot, has spent $1.5 million of his own money on ads as an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate.