In Ward 3, D.C. voters not easy to find

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Linda Cropp struggled to find registered District Democrats in an area of the city, upper Northwest, where Maryland residents are just as common. “No matter where you are in D.C. you get Maryland voters,” Cropp said in Friendship Heights, about 100 feet from the Maryland border.

Her day in Ward 3 only confirmed, Cropp said, that the District keeps 30 cents of every dollar earned in the city. But she said of Friendship Heights, a busy retail shopping hub: “This is where, when you talk to people in Ward 3, you get the most activity.”

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