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youtube.com - 1/30/2009

Michael Steele's 1st TV Ad: Different Kind of Senator (video)

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The Steele for Maryland Campaign released this a few weeks ago. Michael Steele is on point and oozes charisma.

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A Children’s Treasury Of Stories & Videos From Michael Steele’s Maryland Political Career
Wonkette » top — Congratulations to Michael Steele, who finally beat out that actual Confederate slaveowning plantation owner to become the first African-American President of the United States! Maybe we should celebrate with something fun, like a national WAR WITH IRAN, hmm? Well, even though we were *praying* for the old white guy — a member of a whites-only country club! — to come from behind and “steele” the black person’s victory at the last minute, we are “steele” satisfied with Michael “Steele.” Let’s “steele” away to our Wonkette Time Machine and revisit a hilarious chapter in state political history: Michael ...

New RNC Chairman Michael Steele Ran As Change Candidate In 2006
The Moderate Voice — If the GOP truly seeks to reach out to a constituency beyond Rush Limbaugh’s listenership demographic, they could have picked no better candidate for Republican National Committee Chairman than Michael Steele, the first African American to get that slot. When Steele promises to bring the GOP up to speed in terms of technology, reach out to minorities and, by implication, not seem to be yet another top GOPer who seemingly gives the back of his hand to moderates and centrists, people believe him. There are several reason why. And you can perhaps sense some of them by watching this ad from 2006….when he ran for Senator…as a change candidate. He ...

Steele's appeal (but not to David Duke)
Ben Smith's Blog — 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 that: Steele ran as an independent outsider with a memorable ad campaign. But he also benefitted from an old dynamic familiar to anyone who follows urban politics, in which a racially divisive Democratic primary gave the Republicans a shot with the losing side, in this case Maryland's large black minority, a dynamic in which Steele's race was a big help. ...