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Democrats Plan Race-Based Campaign Against Black Candidate in Maryland (Steele)
The New York Sun Richard Minter
Democrats plan a race-based campaign against a candidate who aims to be Maryland’s first black man elected to the U. S. Senate, according to a confidential Democratic Party campaign document obtained by The New York Sun.
The target of the emerging smear campaign is Michael Steele, the Republican nominee for a seat vacated by Paul Sarbanes, a liberal Democrat who has represented Maryland in the Senate for 30 years.
With the help of life-size cardboard silhouettes of Mr. Steele and the slogan “Make History,” Mr. Steele became Maryland’s lieutenant governor in 2002 - the first black man ever elected to statewide office in the state. Now he hopes to make history again.
Mr. Steele has long been a focus of Democratic fire. In previous campaigns, Mr. Steele has been pelted with Oreo cookies for allegedly betraying his race. Two Democratic campaign staffers resigned last year when they illicitly obtained copies of Mr. Steele’s financial records.
Now a confidential report, prepared for the Maryland Democratic Party and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee calls for “aggressive” and immediate action against Mr. Steele.
The Republican has “a clear ability to break through the Democratic stronghold among African American voters in Maryland,” the report predicted.
Democrats’ victory calculus has long relied on capturing virtually all of the black vote. Now a 37-page report, based on a telephone survey of 489 black likely voters and presented by Cornell Belcher, a pollster handpicked by Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean, suggests that some of that support may be slipping away
“At this time, a majority of African-American voters are open to supporting Steele, particularly younger voters,” Mr. Belcher concluded.
“Steele’s messaging to the African American community has clearly had a positive effect - with many voters reciting his campaign.
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