Top-Ranked Centrist Kratovil In Top 10 Race... By Money

Frank Kratovil, who ranked first with a score of 92 in TheCenterline.org's ratings released last week, finds himself in one of the 10 most expensive races in the country as the DCCC and RCCC pour resources into the Maryland 1st. 


This against an opponent, Andy Harris, who believes energy security lies in abolishing the Department of Energy and developing ANWR -- and that "the Constitution protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms for security and defense of self, family, property..."


Harris is a physician and naval reservist who has held the line on taxes over his decade-plus in the state senate.  But his black-and-white view on all investments by government -- and his activist, expansionist interpretation of the "well-regulated militia" clause -- are no match for Kratovil's ability to separate the wheat from the chaff.  


A former prosecutor, Kratovil is a great match for the politically balanced district that elected him in 2008, and he has a great future as a consensus-builder in Congress.  But first he has to persuade the good people of Maryland to let him keep at it.