Locally, there is a strong message for all elected officials: The vocal conservatives of Carroll County are the tip of a very deep iceberg. They may be too busy to write letters or attend hearings, but they vote! In fact, approximately 57,000, or 64 percent of, Carroll voters decided they had had enough of weak Republicans and voted for Trump. Don't say it's because we had no other choice. In Carroll's Republican primary, Trump received one-and-a-half times more votes than all of the next 10