VIDEO: Jacobs Wins in Congressional Primary
State Sen. Nancy Jacobs cruised to an easy victory in the 2nd Congressional District Republican primary over five other candidates.
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State Sen. Nancy Jacobs claimed victory over five other candidates Tuesday night in her bid to earn the Republican nomination in the 2nd Congressional District.
According to unofficial totals at 1 a.m. from the Maryland Board of Elections, Jacobs had 12,027 votes (59.1 percent), easily holding off her closest competitor Del. Rick Impalaria, who had 4,840 votes (23.8 percent).
Other candidates included Larry Smith (2,291 votes), Howard Orton (481), Ray Bly (394) and Vlad Degan (305).
Jacobs will now go on to face incumbent Democrat Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger in the general elections. Her win came on the same night that Mitt Romney won the Maryland GOP presidential primary.
"It's time to ditch Dutch (Ruppersberger)," Jacobs said. "We know there are a lot more Democrats than Republicans in the district, but we know that we have a lot of crossover support. There were plenty of people who came up to our workers and told us 'we're Democrats that can't vote for you in the primary, but come the general election, you will have our support."
Buzz Beeler
8:59 am on Wednesday, April 4, 2012
A good student will always do well in the test if they do their homework. Fort Howard will be Dutch's achilles heel. That tendon stretches back to the county days and therein begins the study period.
There is a well traveled route on this campaign tour and one of the stops includes Yorkway at the local level, not to mention a $16 trillion debt, $4 dollar gas prices and if anyone thinks our problems with the recession are over, better look east where the dominoes are falling this way.
As the saying goes - know your opponent.