Baltimore: A mayoral rematch full of unexpected turns heads to its uncertain conclusion
A major dropout whose name is still on the ballot. A rematch held under very different circumstances. A race where “non-endorsement” endorsements became commonplace.
The rematch between incumbent Mayor Brandon Scott and former Mayor Sheila Dixon is here, and it’s been a weird one. With a major recent race shake-up and no public, up-to-date data about how people are feeling, voters head into primary election day in an unusual information vacuum. Another tight finish seems likely. After that, who knows?
Scott narrowly bested Dixon, a former mayor who left office in 2010 amid a corruption scandal, last cycle — an unusual race in which the election was first delayed, then conducted mostly by mail due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite two familiar names on the ballot, trying to compare 2020 and 2024 turnout numbers thus far isn’t much of an analysis, said pollster Mileah Kromer, associate professor of political science and the director of the Sarah T. Hughes Center for Politics at Goucher College.
“It becomes an apples to oranges comparison in a lot of ways, because 2020 was this really sort of exceptional year of uprising of upheaval, and uprisings,” Kromer says.
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