Yeah, right. Since most of rural MD goes GOP, Reps are racists. Steele may gain votes from black racists who won't vote for a white candidate.
Can't we all just get along??? lol
Wonder if they studied to see how many blacks voted for the white Cardin as opposed to black Mfume in the Maryland dem primary?
Dear kabar,
Mr. Steele appears to be getting good (for a Republican) black support. Numbers have been between 25% and 33%.
Ordinarily, that would be enough to give a Republican statewide candidate about 55% of the vote in a two-way contest, since ordinarily, the Republican picks up nearly 2/3 of the white vote. Mr. Ehrlich got about 52% of the vote in 2002 with 22% of the black vote.
Yet, Mr. Steele hasn't been polling all that near to 50%. One poll that broke out the racial composition showed Mr. Steele getting around 54% of the white vote. If that holds, Mr. Steele loses, even with a third of the black vote.
sitetest
I live and work in the "Country" people here are very good, hard working people. They quite probably feel the same way but I'll say this, if you called them racists or challenged them like this article does they'd be out in droves to prove that they aren't like that. I'd like to see 6 or 7 more of these articles before election day.