Democrat Leads in Md. Senate Race

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Democratic Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin holds an 11-point lead over Republican Lt. Gov. Michael Steele in the U.S. Senate race, according to poll results published Monday.

Cardin leads Steele 51 percent to 40 percent in the poll, conducted Sept. 15-18 by Potomac Inc. of Bethesda. Results were published in The (Baltimore) Sun.

The two men are seeking to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Paul Sarbanes. Cardin won the Democratic nomination in the Sept. 12 primary, narrowly beating Kweisi Mfume, former head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Steele, the first black candidate elected statewide in Maryland, had faced only little-known opponents in the Republican primary.

Though he is white, Cardin holds a nearly 3-to-1 advantage among black voters in the heavily Democratic state, and he dominates in jurisdictions with the highest concentrations of black voters - Prince George's County and Baltimore.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6104059,00.html

[AX10]

1. K & R!

Alot of national party members are going to campaign for him too!

[skipos]

2. GOOD. nt

[LiberalEsto]

3. Steele, his opponent

hasn't done anything during his years as Lt. Governor. Nothing. Nada. And Steele is trying to distance himself from the rethug party and B*sh. Instead, he's posing with cute fuzzy puppies 'n stuff in his ads.

[Bitwit1234]

4. MD Senate Race

And the reason. The black people in this country have more sense than their white counterparts. No matter how the republicans lie, pull tricks and threaten, it seems that blacks look around the rhetoric and pick the person who would do more for their race, and that is democrats. No matter how the recent black republican ads tried to tell people about the struggle for civil rights in this country was all done by republicans,the black people knew it was a lie. They knew their fathers and mothers, grandparents stood shoulder to shoulder to the democrats who marched with them and demonstrated with them.

So it only strengthens their resolve when they see the lies about the KKK and Martin Luther KIng being a republican. I wish the other races in this country had the memory of the black people to know who was on their side.