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Does National Democratic Spending On Brown Mean The Governor's Race Is Tight?

Kyle Leslie, Matt Purdy
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The Democratic Governors Associationwill buy $750,000 worth of television adsin Maryland's gubernatorial contest, despite what many assume will be an easy win for Lt.Gov. Anthony Brown, the party's nominee.

WYPR'sFraser Smith and Jenna Johnson of the Washington Post talk about what theDGA'sparticipation says about the race.

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Fraser Smith has been in the news business for over 30 years. He began his reportorial career with the Jersey Journal, a daily New Jersey newspaper and then moved on to the Providence Journal in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1969 Fraser won a prestigious American Political Science Association Public Affairs Fellowship, which enabled him to devote a year to graduate study at Yale University. In 1977, Fraser was hired away by The Baltimore Sun where in 1981, he moved to the newspaper's Washington bureau to focus on policy problems and their everyday effect on Marylanders. In 1983, he became the Sun's chief political reporter.