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Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came to Maryland on Thursday to praise the record of the O'Malley administration and urge young voters to turn out for Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown.

At a rally on the University of Maryland in College Park, Clinton said that as governor, Brown "would be on your side," fighting to promote gender equality, gun-control laws and other core Democratic values.

She urged college students to drag their roommates to the polls.

"They may be checking the box next to Anthony Brown, but they're really voting for themselves," Clinton said. "I really think you will be proud of the job Anthony Brown will do. ... He can't do anything if you can't turn out for him."

Clinton is the latest in a string of high-profile Democrats hoping to buoy Brown in his tight race against Republican Larry Hogan in Tuesday's election.

Hogan, meanwhile, campaigned along Harford Road in Baltimore County on Thursday afternoon, seeking votes in the battleground jurisdiction and popping into businesses. He stressed his message that only pocketbook issues matter in this election.

"We're going to try to roll back as many of those 40 tax increases as we can," Hogan told Tim Bonner, a towing company owner who attended a Hogan event in Parkville. Small businesses, Hogan said, have been "really getting squeezed over the last eight years."

The contest for governor is unexpectedly close for a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1. Brown leads in most polls by single digits.

During Maryland's eight-day early voting period which ended Thursday Democrats cast by far the most votes. More than 308,300 early ballots were cast, state elections officials said Thursday night. Their figures show about 62 percent were by Democrats, about 28 percent by Republicans, and the rest by independent and third-party voters.

In College Park, Clinton encouraged the mostly college-age crowd of several hundred people in Ritchie Coliseum to support Brown if they want to continue an agenda that legalized gay marriage and allows in-state tuition for some immigrants who are in the country without legal documentation.

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