Barbara Mikulski

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He's not going to win though. If O'Malley ends up unpopular he might be able to retake the governorship in 2010, but he can't win a Senate seat.

Maybe he could against a really bad Democratic candidate, but it would have to be someone even worse than Kweisi Mfume would have been.

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I've made the point before - but Steele came closer than any Republican has in getting elected to the Senate from Maryland since 1976 or thereabouts.  He lost 54%-44%, but the race was anamoly in that it was one in a Kerry state that was closer than the latter's victory there two years earlier.  The fact that it was 2006 and Steele could come that close makes me think that even if he couldn't win in say an open-seat election in 2010, he could make it close again.  Nor do I really understand how his name has been 'tarnished' since the election. 

Apparently, race-baiting isn't cool.

Maryland has a large black population and Michael Steele is black so it is only natural that he attempts to appeal to that voting bloc. Besides Maryland's whites are pretty liberal to begin with.

"Vote for Michael Steele, he's black."

He's become a statewide joke over the overt racial tone his campaign took.

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"Vote for Michael Steele, he's black."

Barack Obama for America 2008

Because, you know, Obama has run campaign ads with rappers endorsing him.

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"Vote for Michael Steele, he's black."

Barack Obama for America 2008

Because, you know, Obama has run campaign ads with rappers endorsing him.

Just because Steele was trying to make a connection to young black voters doesn't mean he was trying to be a sectarian canidate.

What else could it possibly mean? Rap certainly has no political relevance whatsoever.