Smith has “God-like” popularity?

Laura Vozzella

The Gazette put Jim Smith, the term-limited Baltimore County exec running for who knows what, on its list of 10 Marylanders with the most clout. “He has God-like popularity,” Potomac Inc. pollster G. Keith Haller told the paper. The exec isn’t letting the hosannas go to his head, spokesman Don Mohler said. “As a product of Jesuit schools, he’s very uncomfortable being compared to the deity.”