Micah, to circle back to your question about Baltimore and O’Malley: I’m a Baltimore native — a proud Baltimore native. I think the city gets tarred with a brush of failure when, frankly, I dare anyone to do a quick turnaround on a city which dropped from a population of 1 million in 1950 to 600,000 now, with all of the vacant housing; and which is a stop on the global drug pipeline into the East Coast via its ports. I’m not judging whether O’Malley could have done more. And frankly, I believe Baltimore will be fine in the long run. It’s one of the last places for affordable (and often historically beautiful) real estate in the East Coast megalopolis. All of that said: O’Malley is not scoring any points for being from Baltimore.
