TROY, Mich.—When the leading Republican presidential candidates gather Wednesday for a debate at Oakland University near here, they will be at the heart of an affluent and politically pivotal county that is sharply divided over the GOP's call for a smaller and less-intrusive government.
Oakland County is one of the many suburban battlegrounds that will help decide the presidential election, a former Republican stronghold whose white-collar residents swung Democratic in recent years. And their recent battles over taxes and government austerity mirror the national debate.
In Troy, the county's largest city, residents voted in August to raise property taxes to ...
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