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		<title>State Delegate Dist. 36 Race: Three Hoops, Four Basketballs and a Caroline County Jumpshot</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[COMMENTARY The 36th District, covering four counties on Maryland’s Upper Eastern Shore, is like no other legislative district in the state and this year the contests for state Delegates are the political equivalent of “March Madness” in college basketball. But in the Republican primary’s “June madness,” an underdog player from Caroline County will get three shots at the free-throw line to try to claim one of the delegate seats. Every state legislative district has a senator and three delegates. But the 36th is the only district in the state where candidates from four counties—Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne’s and Caroline—have to contend for just three Delegate seats. The three seats currently have a designated “resident delegate” for Cecil, Kent and Queen Anne’s—while Caroline is the only county in the entire state with no resident delegate. Caroline County last had a resident delegate about 20 years ago. Under various redistricting maps in the interim, Caroline County has been sliced into two state districts, diluting the voting power of its smaller population even more. But the redistricting after the 2010 census, while still dividing the county into two districts, suddenly gave Caroline County residents a much better shot—but still a longshot&#8211; at getting [&#8230;]]]></description>
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