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...