The latest setback came last month, when the county Democratic Central Committee failed to field a full slate of County Council candidates.
Two years ago, President Bush carried Anne Arundel County despite losing Maryland. And a majority of county voters in 2002 helped to make Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. the state's first Republican governor in 36 years.
Also in 2002, the GOP took control of the County Council for only the second time in three decades of charter government.
Democrats still hold most of the...
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