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Steele Elected RNC Chair
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
Yes, he's African-American, and he almost lost to a guy who belonged to a whites-only country club, so let's not get carried away here... ...
Will he change his name to Ravene?
Balloon Juice —
... Maryland’s Michael Steele was just elected chair of the RNC as many of you have heard. You may remember Steele’s “ ...
Chairman Steele
Political Animal —
... South Carolina GOP Chairman Katon Dawson, 91 votes to 77, to become the new chairman of the Republican National Committee. Steele is the first African American to hold the post. Steele's victory also marks a decision by some GOP leaders that to elect a man associated with an all-white country club -- when America just elected a black president, and the GOP itself runs a risk of being branded an all-white club -- was too big a risk to run. Steele ran in large part on his ability to rebrand the party and to do battle on cable news. Though he is, in fact, quite conservative ...
Michael Steele, who is the new RNC chairman and black, says the GOP has an "image problem."
Althouse —
"After five ballots, the race came down to Steele and Dawson. Republican party strategists in attendance at the meeting openly fretted about the possibility of electing Dawson, who had acknowledged his membership in a whites-only club, and the signal it would send to a country that had just elected Obama as the nation's first black president." ...
Michael Steele, Human Zune
I Am TRex —
... was famous being the highest-ranking elected Black Republican in the country, when he was the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland. Then he lost a Senate race. Now he is in charge of the Republican Party! ...
WaPo's Cillizza Tries To Create Distance Between Limbaugh and New GOP Chairman
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... The main stream media has done it again. I was blogging at the Republican National Committee elections on Friday, and I asked newly elected Chairman Michael Steele if the RNC would stand behind Limbaugh in the midst of the attacks the radio host was getting from Democrats. The Washington Post referred to my question and Steele's response. Here is what Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post wrote: ...
Michael Steele's Mumbo-Jumbo Job Talk
Politics Daily —
Filed under: Republicans, EconomyWhen is a job not a job? When Michael Steele, the recently hired head of the RNC, says so. Here he is on ABC's "This Week," attempting to distinguish between the "work" and the jobs that the stimulus package will create. Question: If Michael Steele isn't successful in rehabilitating the Republican party's "image problem", or, if the allegations made against him concerning the money he is alleged to have paid his sister's business for services it did not perform turn out to be true, and, ...
Steele’s Fate Likely Hinges on NY-20
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
As controversy swirls around Michael Steele’s drama-laden debut as Republican National Committee Chairman, speculation about whether he’ll remain in the post has blossomed among Democrats and Republicans alike. Steele won the chairmanship in January after a six-ballot marathon that saw the previous Chairman, Mike Duncan, drop out after the third ballot and saw Steele best southerner Katon Dawson 91-77 on the final vote. ...
