politico.com - 1/30/2009
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Michael Steele makes history as the first black chairman of the Republican National Committee, and as a rare winner -- at least in part -- of an outside game in what is usually an insider's contest. He won with 91 votes, 6 more than he needed, over South Carolina GOP Chairman Katon Dawson.
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politico.com - 2/2/2009
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politico.com —
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 ...
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Steele's appeal (but not to David Duke)
news.yahoo.com - 1/31/2009
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WASHINGTON The Republican Party chose the first black
national chairman in its history Friday, just shy of...
three months after the nation elected a Democrat as the first African-American president. The choice marked no less than "the dawn of a new ...
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Michael Steele becomes first black RNC chairman - Yahoo! ...
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Michael Steele Elected to RNC Chairmanship
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