When the Governor is having a beer (or maybe a spiked iced tea)

It is an adage in politics that voters want to choose politicians with whom they can see themselves having a beer.

If the politician in question is Governor Wes Moore of Maryland, it turns out voters can even shoot one with him.

Mr. Moore showed up at the Baltimore Ravens tailgate on Sunday, surrounded by exuberant football fans, and quickly demonstrated the kind of skills that are often learned in college but not in the classroom.

“We're doing this for the greatest team this planet has ever created, the Baltimore Ravens,” one man shouted, emphasizing his point with an expletive.

The group of men punctured their cans – it actually appeared to be iced tea rather than beer – and drank them at the same time. Mr. Moore flattened his empty empty hand and high-fived the others. And a video that captures the moment echoed approvingly in the online sports world.

It didn't help the Ravens, that one lost to the Kansas City Chiefs in Sunday's AFC championship game.

But it did strengthen Mr. Moore's reputation as a Ravens super fanand underscored the kind of likeability that helped put Mr. Moore, a political newcomer, ahead in a close 2022 Democratic primary for governor in Maryland and gave him a wide lead in the general election.

It is not the first time that a politician has engaged in so-called shotgunning in front of the camera hole cut in the side of the can and then open the top so that the contents flow out. Representative Jared Goldman, Democrat of Maine, shot a Bud Light during a homecoming football game at the University of Maine in October. And in 2015, then-Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, posted photos of her shoot a beer except for Twitter mention that she had done so so in her memoir 'Plenty Ladylike'.

Results may vary: In 2009, during an interview with Stephen Colbert, then-Representative Dan Maffei, Democrat of New York, was urged to have a beer with the comedian to show he could be “cool.” Mr. Maffei failed miserablythe contents of his can emptying before he could figure out what to do with it.