WP: Poll Finds Steele May Be Magnet for Black Voters (in Maryland)

[DeepModem Mom]

Poll Finds Steele May Be Magnet for Black Voters
Candidate's Ties to President Bush Judged a Potential Vulnerability
By Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 6, 2006; B05

An internal document prepared by a top Democratic strategist warns that a majority of African American voters in Maryland are open to supporting Republican Senate candidate Michael S. Steele and advises the party not to wait to "knock Steele down."

The 37-page report says a sizable segment of likely black voters -- as much as 44 percent -- would readily abandon their historic Democratic allegiances "after hearing Steele's messaging."

"Governor Ehrlich and (Lt. Gov.) Michael Steele have a clear ability to break through the Democratic stronghold among African American voters in Maryland," says the March 27 report by Cornell Belcher, polling consultant for the Democratic National Committee, which bases its findings on a survey of 489 black voters in Maryland conducted last month.

The report, given to The Washington Post this week, drills into a topic that has emerged as a key focus of this year's U.S. Senate contest in Maryland: race.

In 2002, Steele became the first African American elected to statewide office in Maryland, and he has designed his Senate campaign to cut into the black support that has traditionally flocked to Democrats....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/05/AR2006040502392_pf.html

[Canuckistanian]

1. Oh, right. African Americans secretly LOVE the GOP.

And Steele's going to be the one to "show them the light".

Sure.

[qanda]

2. The Democratic Party takes African-Americans for granted

At their own peril.

[whododayis]

7. totally agree. they do the same to progressives...except 4 donations

[Botany]

3. Pure bull shit

This way when the exit polls don't agree with the vote it will be
the "African American Vote" that put him over the top.

[Freddie Stubbs]

6. Why would a Democric polling firm hired by the DNC skew a poll

in favor of a Republican? :shrug:

[Botany]

dupe

[Botany]

8. Because my brain waves are being controlled by UFOs

I must adjust my tin foil hat.



raining on my parade :rofl:

[w13rd0]

4. And what is Steele's message?

I will say that there's a fair chance that he'll get a sizable percentage of the African American vote, but that doesn't mean they are going to become Republicans. He'll get a sizable percentage because he is an African American, and communities like to see "their own" in office, sometimes even when they don't agree with their platform. Hell, just look at all the poor white rednecks voting for Bush.

[zbdent]

5. Strangely, the 37-page report looked a lot like

the electrical diagram of a paperless voting machine . . .

[donsu]

9. do the blacks in Md. know Steele is a criminal?

shouldn't they be told his story?