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politico.com - 2/2/2009

Steele's appeal (but not to David Duke)

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Nate Silver looks back at the results of Michael Steele's losing 2006 Senate race, and suggests he was a strong candidate because he did better than you might expect for a Maryland Republican, breaking 44 percent of the vote in a terrible GOP year. There's certainly something to ...

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