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Is Hogan Victory Part Of Anti-Obama Wave?

Governor-elect Larry Hogan (R).
Christopher Connelly
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Governor-elect Larry Hogan (R).
Governor-elect Larry Hogan (R).
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Governor-elect Larry Hogan (R).

Republican Larry Hogan's upset over Democratic Lt.Gov. Anthony Brown stood out in a night of big victories by the GOP around the country. But Richard Cross of the blog Cross Purposes tellsWYPR'sFraser Smith why he thinks Hogan's win is not part of the anti-Obama wave.

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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.