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Governor Martin O’Malley did a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) yesterday, and he fared about as well as his health insurance exchange. Politicians and celebrities have all done AMAs, where they answer questions from Reddit users, who in turn assign up or down votes. As of this morning O’Malley’s AMA is rated 61 percent positive with 3,984 upvotes and 2,520 downvotes. O’Malley left and returned to the AMA several times during the day. While the current score appears O’Malley had a successful AMA, in reality O’Malley tanked. Twitchy compiled Twitter responses to O’Malley’s AMA, which included these gems. The Baltimore City Paper noted that early on negative comments “outweighed the positive by a wide margin”   O’Malley received downvotes for his answers on the gas tax, redistricting, guns, and the gas tax.   He received upvotes for his answers on marijuana and schools. One question O’Malley left unanswered specifically referenced last week’s Gallup poll—first covered at the Qui...

Maryland, the state gubernatorial candidate and Obamacare point man, Lt. Governor Anthony Brown, boasted would be “the model” for implementing the Affordable Care Act, fell woefully short of its enrollment goals. According to data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Maryland “enrolled” only 67, 757 resident in private health insurance plans between October 1, 2013 and March 31, 2014. This number falls far short of the revised goal of 150,000 newly insured O’Malley-Brown administration officials set for the now junked Maryland Health Benefit Exchange. The HHS report notes that the reported number enrolled in private insurance plans is “the cumulative number of individuals determined eligible to enroll in a plan through the Marketplace who have selected a plan…” the data does not reveal how many of those classified as enrolled have made payments.   The report does not include data on how many enrollees received subsidies noting, “Maryland is presently unab...

Nearly half of all Marylanders want to move elsewhere. According to a Gallup survey , 47 percent of Marylanders polled said they would like to move out of state. Maryland came in a close third behind Illinois and Connecticut with 50 percent and 49 percent respectively. Gallup conducted a six-month, 50 state poll between June-December 2013 with 600 representative interviews with residents aged 18 and older in each state. Gallup asked, “Regardless of whether you will move, if you had the opportunity, would you like to move to another state, or would you rather remain in your current state?" Gallup reported that among respondents “taxes are a uniquely important factor in New York, Illinois, and Maryland.” Gallup reported earlier this month that 67 percent of Marylanders thought their taxes were too high. Under Governor Martin O’Malley Maryland raised taxes and fees 40 times since 2007. Gallup also reported that:   Nevada, Illinois, Maryland, Louisiana, Mississippi, New...