Steele Set for Victory?
By Erick Posted in 2006 — Comments (19) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
If early indications in Maryland and GOP rumblings can be believed, it looks like the GOP will hold on to the U.S. Senate thanks to the election of Michael Steele to the United States Senate.
Several top Republicans in DC are quietly saying they expect Michael Steele to win and Georgia House District 12 to flip to the GOP.
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If he is the reason we hold the Senate, put him in some sort of power position!
just amazing. It would really turn things upside down in a Democratic world.
If he does win, I wonder if takes Erlich with him.
What early indications is such a prediction being based on?
Good news, but MD is one of those states that always seems to get a big batch of late votes from a major urban precinct helping the Dems. Perhaps Steele being from Prince George Country will prevent this.
VICE-PRESIDENT!!!
Should he win, of course.
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If "pro" is the opposite of "con", what is the opposite of "progress"?
If Steele can get blacks to vote for him in Baltimore and PG County, its over.
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"As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this."
- George Mason
what this is based on? Or is it just a strategic leak from the Steele campaign (one which, I hope, is based in reality)?
for Michael Steele. May the good Lord help you win!
I have voted - have you?
they have more volunteers than they have phones to hand out to make calls. there is tremendous enthusiasm among Republicans in maryland right now. hopefully this energy will translate to victory for both Ehrlich and Steele.
If they win...all of you in Virginia can feel free to move across the river!
Steele has run a brilliant campaign, also he benefits from demographic changes in MD: Baltimore used to be the ticket to statewide offices, with an overwhelming big-city Democratic vote, combined with wine& cheese libs from Montgomery Co (DC suburbs; what republicans won were RINOs. Well, the suburbs and exurbs have become much more influential, tho MD is still very Democratic. The past decade has seen an exodus of African-Americans from Washington DC to Prince Georges Co -- this is now the richest A-A county in America. Michael Steele was raised in DC and now lives in Largo, PG County. It is overwhelmingly Democrat - or was, but I believe many of these voters will vote for Steele.
Ehrlich has been an excellent governor. Cardin (Sen) and O'Malley(Gov) are based in Baltimore and depend on the Baltimore vote to win. Anecdotal evidence -- driving out to Fedex field for the Redskins game, drove around a bit -- ratio of Steele signs to Cardin signs about 20 to 1 (this is in the heart of PG Co). Ehrlich to O'Malley about 2 to 1.
By the way Steele was recruited by the President & Rove to run in MD -- not by Dole.
Elizabeth Dole has been a disaster at RSCC. Think about the missed oppurtunities: North Dakota and Florida for starters. Norm Coleman, a rising star and a better senator, would have been FAR superior
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"As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this."
- George Mason
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If "pro" is the opposite of "con", what is the opposite of "progress"?
Not sure what committee you're talking about -- RSCC? How about the NRSC. Figure out what you're talking about before you start spitting bile.
Secondly, it didn't matter who the NRSC chairman was. Bush's numbers were so much in the toliet, whoever had the task at the NRSC had an uphill battle.
And if you remember correctly, not even the President of the United States and Rove could get Crazy Harris out of the race -- they tried. So how is FL Dole's fault again?
Lastly, the NRSC this cycle (2006) raised more money than when Chairman Allen ran the committee in a Presidential Year. Think about that for a moment. Best fund raising enviroment (2004) in ten years vs. worst fund raising environment (2006) in the last ten years and she still beat Allen's numbers.
I also was at that same Montgomery county phone banking center. And I can confirm what was stated above, there were more volunteers than there were cell phones (about 100) so that they had to send people outside to do door to door walks. At the same time, I think these "sources" are not that clued in to what is happening- Steele ran an amazing campaign but to win in Maryland is nearly a herculean task. there are 800,000 more dems in this state than Rs- and all they need is 1 more than we have. I don't think we win. It will be close, but Cardin will find some batch of extra votes somewhere in the end. Don't count on Maryland bailing out Allen's failures in Virginia..
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I voted for Steele already. I am black and an indepenedent. Even though there are a lot more democrats than republicans here in Maryland, black people make up a third of the state's population, and the democrats will not have a lock on the black vote as they have had in the past - particularly with the extremely arrogant way they've treated black voters this election (calling Steele "sambo", ignoring Kweisi Mfume, etc).
Cardin has run as bad a campaign as Steele has run a great one. During his final debate, he stated that he was not in Congress during the time the Patriot act was signed into law. He's been there since 1986! Before that, he was unaware of the Metro transit system's purple line - a billion dollar state issue. The possibility of him winning depends almost on a straight party-line vote - every Democrat and Independent voting for him. He has not made inroads across party lines, but Steele has.
If my precinct is an indicator (I just voted). I am in a heavily GOP precinct in Perry Hall (Baltimore County) and I have NEVER seen so many voters (even in a Presidential election). I spoke to a poll worker and he said it has been like that all day (my wife voted earlier and confirms). He said we have 1,700 registered in the precinct and he thinks we are going to be close to 100% turnout. This is a heavily GOP area - that is great for Steele (and Ehrlich and Gilchrist and Boettler, Cluster, Redmer-Mullahey, etc.).
Any insiders on the other big races?
Sitting out is a vote for KOS.