It's down to the wire as candidates campaign for every vote prior to Tuesday's Maryland Primary. Citizens registered as Democrats and Republicans will have the chance to decide who, within their respective parties, will run in the general election for President, US Senator, Representative, the school board and other races.

One contest which has generated a lot of interest is the Democratic 6th District Congressional race.  In that race,  John Delaney has charged State Senate Majority Leader Rob Garagiola with being a lobbyist who did report his income from the profession. "It's a typical smear tactic that you'd see from Republicans," Garagiola responds. "I did do some advocacy on the hill long before I was a senator, ten years ago." He says that item was omitted from his campaign filing papers, but that has been corrected. "And it's ironic to me that he's talking about transparency when, in December, I provided ten years of my tax records which indicated whom my employers were over those ten years, and what I have earned. We asked him to do the same," says Garagiola. "Even Mitt Romney has provided his taxes; John Delaney has not."

Garagiola was in Frederick to appear on WFMD's "Frederick's Forum."

The Garagiola campaign has called Delaney a "loan shark," but he's says he's not concerned about that. "I think voters have understood that none of that's true," Delaney responds. "We've received very good endorsements over the past few weeks from {former} President Bill Clinton and The Washington Post, and I think we have a tremendous amount of momentum."

Delaney, who was in Frederick on Friday afternoon meeting with passengers on the MARC Train, released a poll on Thursday which has  him ahead in the race for the Democratic nomination. The survey shows Delaney with 49% of the vote, followed by Garagiola with 23%, Milad Pooran with 10%, and Ron Little with 2%. 16% of the voters polled in the survey were unsure.

Pooran, who lives in Jefferson,  was also in Frederick on Friday. He was touring the Downtown, meeting with residents and business people. With a lot of attention focused on the Garagiola-Delaney race, Pooran said he still manages to make himself known among citizens. "I think the average voter that we run into, they're going on the website, they're looking at the forums which are posted on the website," he says. "So we've actually had pretty good information getting out there."

On the Republican side, State Senator David Brinkley has released a poll which finds he and Incumbent Congressman Roscoe Bartlett are in a dead heat. The survey says Bartlett has 34.2% of the vote, followed closely by Brinkley, who has 31.4%. The undecided voters make up 14.6% of the poll. The Brinkley campaign says Bartlett's support is eroding. "Two-thirds of Republican Primary voters do not support Roscoe Bartlett's re-election bid," says Brinkley Campaign Manager Lawrence Scott, in a statement. "The remaining 'undecided' voters will determine the GOP nominee."

Bartlett faces six  other challengers in the race: Frederick County Delegate Kathy Afzali, Robin Ficker, Robert Coblentz, Peter James, Joseph Krysztoforski and Dameon Rippeon.

Primary Election Day is April 3rd.