Democratic research in Maryland is starting to show that Michael Steele is beginning to sway some Black voters in his favor. Some disagree and bring up the past election where the Ehrlich-Steele ticket only received 13% of their votes from Blacks. Only an idiot would have trouble realizing that a group of folks who have often been swayed to vote on race-bait over principle, would start to consider Michael Steele when he’s the man at the top of the ticket. Michael Steele speaks to many Blacks’ true core principles and he also has the skin tone to match. Unfornately many Black voters tend to cast votes based on the latter over the former.
Strategists have recommended a battle plan to Democrats. Make Steele look like Bush. Instead of voters listening to Michael Steele to see what Michael Steele stands for, Democrats have been instructed to focus on what George W. Bush stands for and claim that’s who Michael Steele is. In other words, they want to imply that Michael Steele is Bush’s House Negro.
Poll Finds Steele May Be Magnet for Black Voters
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.
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In an interview in his State House office yesterday, Steele clutched the DNC report like a football coach who just got his hands on the opposing team’s playbook. He said a copy “landed on our doorstep” in the past week.
“This explains everything,” he said. “They’re afraid of what I represent. They’re afraid of the fact that African American voters have options, and I’m one of them.”
Steele focused on two aspects of the document: the finding that a high percentage of black voters have connected with his message and the recommendation that the Democrats attack him early.
“Voters need to know they’re trying to make me into something I’m not,” Steele said.
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“I am independent in thought,” he said. “What I’m about is what’s important to Marylanders.”
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Matt Drudge has a copy of the actual memo here.
The Democrats see the tide turning, but instead of changing their platform to include more of the values that Black people see in Michael Steele, they will continue with their usual Liberal rhetoric.
