I know this is almost definitely too good to be true, but what if its not? Hoyer is considered so safe no real polling has been done in the fifth district. The last time he ran he won more than seventy.
But, his opponent, Charles Lollar, another black conservative Republican, is running an intelligent, energetic campaign. He got on Hoyer's nerves so badly Hoyer, sometime during a break in a debate the two were having, took him off to the side and punched him in the back-twice. He then told Lollar, ""I'm coming after you".
Unfortunately, Lollar didn't press this, probably because it was not caught on tape or video, so there is no proof, as there were no witnesses-well, that is, other than the one reporter who questioned Lollar, who affirmed it happened.
Hoyer also got some bad news from some of his constituents during the course of a glad handing trip to the district, in which a couple of business owners told him things were by no means improving for them, and questioning his assessment of things.
Steny's district has a large black population. They might possibly be a majority, and Lollar is black. Granted, he's by no means the typical liberal Democratic plantation straw boss they are used to having shoved in their faces, but is he persuasive enough to convince a sizable number of them its time to escape their bonds and make their way into the twenty-first century? Are there enough business people, black and white, who are sick of Hoyer's arrogance and sense of entitlement to send a clear message to Washington?
Like I said, it sounds almost too good to be true. But one things for sure, the card of The World reversed will almost definitely come true for Hoyer in one way.
His days as the House Majority Leader are about to come to a screeching halt.
