Kromer: Economic attitudes in Maryland might decide the governor’s race

The statewide election cycle has undoubtedly entered its spring awakening. The first television ads have launched, major state players are finalizing their endorsements and cutting checks, and candidates’ dance cards are filling up with various town halls and voter forums. For the Democratic gubernatorial candidates, given the considerable diversity of their much larger primary electorate, that also means finalizing strategies aimed at winning over voters who hold competing preferences, ideologies and expectations on issue positions. Most candidates have offered broad policy platforms on everything from educational equity to climate change to addressing social justice issues.