Maryland Senate Seat may go Republican

Booker Rising has a nice comment on the Washington Post article outlining Maryland's black Republican Lt. Gov. Michael Steele's popularity among Maryland's black voters, citing an internal poll by a Democratic consultant that gives Steele a 44% slice of Maryland's large black population.

Booker Rising notes:

"This explains everything," said Lt. Gov. Steele, about the DNC report. "They're afraid of what I represent. They're afraid of the fact that African American voters have options, and I'm one of them." I guess that explains how white Democrats working for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee illegally got his credit report, which later resulted in a conviction. Not to mention the break-in of his campaign office not too long ago. Can't have black folks voting across party lines, now can we? Lest coloreds start to get ideas that we should not be so tied to partisanship. And Mr. Bositis fails to account for the possibility that there may be increased black support for Lt. Gov. Steele since his race four years ago.