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Maryland can be classified as "Strong Obama" this election cycle, which is of no surprise to voters, candidates, and political analysts. Maryland has a very large black population, which will make their voters strongly identify with Obama, as well as turn out to vote in this historic election. The National Journal's political analysis of Maryland states, "Republican statewide candidates need more than two-thirds of the non-black votes to win, and that’s pretty hard to achieve when 17% of the votes are cast in the upscale and heavily liberal suburbs of Montgomery County, northwest of Washington."

Maryland holds its presidential primary a week before the well known "Super Tuesday", however they have gotten little notice in elections due to their consistent Democratic candidate voting nature. This election cycle, their primary was held on February 12th.

The governor and two senators are all Democrats and are not up for reelection this year, so those positions will not be mixing up the presidential election this year. Out of the eight congressional seats that Maryland has, only two of those seats are held by Republicans. It is not being reported that any of the seats up for reelection this year will make a difference, or be very close watches.

The National Journal Almanac lists Maryland's registered voters as "D: 1,733,126(55.1%) ; R: 909,275(28.9%) ; ; O: 500,411(15.9%)".

In four past election cycles, as is the trend with Maryland, they have voted for the Democratic candidates. In 1992 and 1996 the electoral votes were cast for Clinton, in 2000 for Gore and 2004 for Kerry.