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My ex is a Maryland die hard Democrat. When I asked her if she would vote for Steele, she said no way, Im not voting for someone who should be a democrat but is part of the Bush group. "Black people shouldnt be Republican, because Republicans dont care about poor or minorites.. We have our work cut out for us in the Peoples Republic of Maryland.

Lynn Swann, Michael Steele, Kenneth Blackwell and Keith Butler are four charismatic, conservative, Republican Senatorial and Gubenatorial candidates who happen to be black and are attempting to change the nation's politics.

Licking my chops bump...

Great article and happy to have some further info on these great candidates. Know JC Watts will do a fabulous job and I do believe Lynn Swann can pull it off. I'm originally from B'ham, AL and so proud of Condoleezza Rice I just can't stand it. These guys all sound like really good guys and I'm keeping my fingers crossed. They're brave to boot!

I'm talking about the candidacies of Butler a former Detroit City Councilman who is in the running for the U.S. Senate seat from the state of Michigan. Current Ohio Secretary of State and former Mayor of Cincinatti, Blackwell is running for the Gubenatorial seat in Ohio. Steele is currently Maryland's Lieutenant Governor and he's seeking the U.S. Senate seat from the state of the Terrapins. And finally former Pittsburgh Steelers star wide receiver and long time sports reporter for ABC television, Swann is trying to take Ed Rendell's job as the Governor of Pennsylvania.

Glory, I've lived to see this day. It's amazing to see things change like this. I remember the election eve when Ronald Reagan was declared the winner in 1980. That was tremendous, but what really shocked me that night was that a Republican won the Texas governorship for the first time since Reconstruction Rule. Nobody thought that could ever happen. Being a Republican in Texas had been only for die-hard optimists before.:)

Now we see outstanding black Republicans running for high offices. May God bless and protect them and may their tribes increase.:)

In the South where black population percentages are greatest, a liberal white democrat can beat a conservative black republican candidate more often than not.

I would guess it's not much different in northern urban clusters.

This sometimes a great but flawed identity based notion is something of a myth about black voting habits much like the old myth that more blacks would begin voting conservative as they got wealthier....not proven...at all.

Old habits and very strong church and peer pressure dies hard.

I am most interested in the best candidates not because of their color or sex, that is only slightly different than what the left does and even if we do it we attain absolutely no political capital regardless of whose butt we're kissing.