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In 2008, Barack Obama received 1,629,467 votes in Maryland versus 959,862 votes for John McCain, giving Obama 10 electoral votes.
In 2012, Barack Obama received 1,677,844 votes in Maryland versus 971,869 votes for Mitt Romney, giving Obama 10 electoral votes.
Maryland continues to have ten electoral votes. In the 2012 election, President Obama won them.
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The deeply-divided slave-owning state of Maryland voted that way because all the Southern sympathisers in the higher echelons of the state legislature had been (illegally) jailed by Lincoln.
The Border States. These were the slave-states that had voted to stay loyal. Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware.
One problem the people of Maryland suffered was religious prejudice. Many of the people that immigrated to Maryland were Catholic. Most people in the colonies were not, so there was a certain amount of persecution.
Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware. They might not have welcomed the label of 'Northern'. But when the test came, they (narrowly) voted against the Confederates, and stayed loyal to the Union.