Cummings: ‘I?m running like I?m behind’

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He’s won his past six bids for reelection by margins more comfortable than silk pajamas, but Elijah Cummings insists he’s campaigning this year like he’s “25 points behind.”

The veteran Democrat, representing the seventh congressional district of Baltimore and much of Howard County, is taking heat from a newcomer challenger for voting in favor of the $700 billion economic bail-out, and says he’s not taking any chances.

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