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Poll: Michael Steele Leads Dems in Senate Race
Newsmax | 22 January 2006

Posted on 01/22/2006 10:13:52 AM PST by concretebob

Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele is ahead of the two leading Democratic candidates for the state's open U.S. Senate seat, a new poll reveals.

Republican Steele, Maryland's first black elected statewide official, would get 45 percent of the vote in a head-to-head match-up with Rep. Benjamin Cardin, who is considered the most likely Democratic challenger, while Cardin would get 40 percent, according to the poll by Rasmussen Reports.

Steele would also garner 45 percent of the vote in a head-to-head race against former NAACP President Kweisi Mfume, who would get 38 percent, in the contest to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Paul Sarbanes.

The poll results are "another example of the tremendous momentum that Michael Steele has, just under three months into his Senate candidacy," Steele campaign manager Leonardo Alcivar told the Washington Times.

More good news for Steele came with the disclosure that his campaign had raised more funds than Cardin in the last quarter of 2005.

The Steele campaign reported that he raised $853,350, including about $500,000 on a single day in November when President Bush attended a Baltimore fund-raiser for the lieutenant governor.

Cardin's campaign raised nearly $800,000 in the quarter, less than he did in the third quarter of 2005, which Steele's campaign said was a sign of slowing momentum.

The Steele campaign has criticized Cardin for receiving $3.9 million in special-interest money for campaign spending over the past 20 years, the Times reports.

And campaign manager Alcivar told The Baltimore Sun that Cardin has taken in a "disproportionate" amount of money from corporate political action committees.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: 2006; election; maryland; michaelsteele; politics; poll; senate; senator; steele
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To: concretebob

Expect some *really* dirty politics from the Democrats. Something on the order of something you would look at and say "I would not dream they would do this in the 21st century.


21 posted on 01/22/2006 11:01:22 AM PST by No Truce With Kings (The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
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To: concretebob

Steele was the most impressive speaker, IMO, during the RNC 2004 convention.


22 posted on 01/22/2006 11:13:09 AM PST by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: taildragger
I think they are all running for Governor. Jindal against Blanco (LA). Blackwell (OH) open seat? I'm not sure about PA either?
23 posted on 01/22/2006 11:13:41 AM PST by robomurph
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To: concretebob
The price of Oreo cookie tossing is going to be very expensive the next election.
24 posted on 01/22/2006 11:14:01 AM PST by RedMonqey (People who don't who stand for something, will fall for anything.)
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To: concretebob

Call me a pessimist , but this poll may have been designed to wake up the plantation workers . It took us over thirty years to get a republican in the state house . Good Luck Mikie !!!

Oh, by the way a pessimist is only an optimist with experience . . .


25 posted on 01/22/2006 11:22:02 AM PST by lionheart 247365 (( I.S.L.A.M. stands for - Islams Spiritual Leaders Advocate Murder .. .. .. ))
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To: savedbygrace

Bump to that.


26 posted on 01/22/2006 11:31:20 AM PST by BARLF
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To: concretebob
WooHoo
27 posted on 01/22/2006 11:32:16 AM PST by EmilyGeiger
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To: concretebob

The Dems can't allow this! A real black Senator Steele would trump their fake black Senator Obama! ;)


28 posted on 01/22/2006 11:34:29 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: robomurph
Lynn Swann is running for the Republican governor's spot in PA..
Long as it ain't that stupid Kubick guy.
29 posted on 01/22/2006 2:45:37 PM PST by concretebob (We should give anarchists what they want. Then we can kill them and not worry about jail-time.)
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To: concretebob
Michael Steele for Maryland
30 posted on 01/22/2006 2:49:00 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: concretebob

The racist attacks on Steele appear to be flopping! I'd love to see Steele win, especially after Schumer's crew tried to smear him.


31 posted on 01/22/2006 4:33:12 PM PST by puroresu (Conservatism is an observation; Liberalism is an ideology)
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To: robomurph

Lynn Swann is running for Governor of Pennsylvania


32 posted on 01/22/2006 9:27:34 PM PST by GeorgeW23225 ("Grow your own dope. Plant a liberal")
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To: Mike Darancette
Mfume does worse against Steele than the White Candidate.

AFAIK, Ben Cardin is also Black...

the infowarrior

33 posted on 01/23/2006 2:40:50 AM PST by infowarrior (TANSTAAFL)
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To: infowarrior
Nope.


34 posted on 01/23/2006 3:06:28 AM PST by Heatseeker (Never underestimate the left's tendency to underestimate us.)
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To: concretebob

Excellent. A couple of terms as Senator and Mr. Steele will be ready for the Oval Office or the VP slot.

A Ken Blackwell / Michael Steele ticket would be extremely interesting.

Regards, Ivan


35 posted on 01/23/2006 3:11:58 AM PST by MadIvan (You underestimate the power of the Dark Side - http://www.sithorder.com/)
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To: concretebob
In DC's MD suburbs LT Gov Steele is a stealth candidate. He gets no ink at all much less TV.
36 posted on 01/23/2006 5:35:00 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine's brother (Democrats would rather whine than win)
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To: Heatseeker
I stand corrected then. It's darned difficult to tell sometimes in this state...

the infowarrior

37 posted on 01/23/2006 2:44:42 PM PST by infowarrior (TANSTAAFL)
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