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109th Lineup: 6 D, 2 R
108th Lineup: 6 D, 2 R
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Maryland was the scene of the Democrats' most successful partisan gerrymandering in the 2002 cycle. Gerrymandering is not too harsh a word: The convoluted shapes of the districts in the Baltimore area would have made Elbridge Gerry blush. The goal of the plan was to protect all four of their incumbents and to draw districts that would be impossible to win for 2d District Republican Bob Ehrlich and 8th District Republican Connie Morella. The Bush 2000 percentage in the 2d fell from 55% to 41% and in the 8th from 36% to 31%. Ehrlich ran for governor and had his revenge. The 8th District attracted three Democratic challengers, each arguably a stronger candidate than any Morella had faced before, and she ended up losing narrowly to state Senator Chris Van Hollen. The four Democratic incumbents had no problems. The two other districts, the 1st, based in the Eastern Shore and the 6th, based in western Maryland, both snake into the Baltimore suburbs to take in heavily Republican precincts; they are safely Republican.