The Race is On

Anybody who thinks that Martin O'Malley is going to cruise to victory in the Democratic primary needs to pay close attention to last night's meeting about policing.

A very raucous crowd of Baltimore city residents came out and gave the Mayor, Commissioner Hamm, and other leaders the what for. There are a lot of angry residents concerned about the perception of police corruption and police brutality in the Baltimore City Police Department. And they are a very vocal lot.

Are these things happening? Who knows. But with the amount of vitriol and anger that was coming out of the crowd last night, it is not hard to imagine that there is a large segment of the Baltimore City population that can be persuaded to vote for Duncan in September.