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Wednesday, November 06, 2002
Robert Ehrlich (R)
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Bob Ehrlich took a gamble in March when he entered the Maryland governor's race, leaving a promising career in Congress as a close ally of the Bush administration to contend for a job no GOP candidate had won since Spiro Agnew in 1966. But the state's floundering Republican party convinced Ehrlich to run, spotting in the Baltimore County moderate something they hadn't seen in years centrist appeal. Ehrlich eventually picked GOP chief Michael Steele, an African-American to run with him. The pair overcame a double-digit deficit in the polls to defeat Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, eldest child of Robert F. Kennedy and mantle-bearer of the increasingly unpopular Glendening administration. Ehrlich successfully painted Townsend and her boss as fiscally irresponsible and blamed them for the state's $1.7 billion budget shortfall as well as ongoing problems with crime and transportation. Ehrlich's challenge faltered in October, when a pair of snipers killed ten people in the Washington, D.C., area and seriously wounded several more. He has promised to introduce new measures to curb gun violence in the state.
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