Posted on 11/07/2006 10:44:25 AM PST by meg88
If early indications in Maryland and GOP rumblings can be believed, it looks like the GOP will hold on to the U.S. Senate thanks to the election of Michael Steele to the United States Senate.
Several top Republicans in DC are quietly saying they expect Michael Steele to win and Georgia House District 12 to flip to the GOP.
It will make my Texas heart glow to see Steele win tonight. He waged a good, smart campaign that should be studied and followed by candidates in the future.
Dickerson has been hot-footing in the district and Carson has had "other" people sitting in for her doing commercials...you should have seen her on the news this morning...she was going to the voting booth and she was "shuffling" instead of walking...Carson definitely does not appear like a strong candidate....everytime she is interviewed, she has a coughing spell.....
Steele is such a better candidate and person than most of what's out there. I so wish I lived just 20 miles North and could have voted for him.
You can bet that MSM will be calling things early as possible for the rats, because that's the only outcome they can envision after all that hard work of Bush bashing, right up to the final campaign hour.
It's truly disgusting how the media is allowed to get away with their bias, blatantly obvious attempts to sway public opinion and effect the outcome of elections. They are taking away the right of the people to choose their own government, and it's something we just cannot allow to continue.
I'll take 33%. The rest would just be gravy.
Ellen Sauerbrey was a tremendous, true conservative GOP candidate in a state that was dominated by one party rule since the days of Spiro Agnew.
She probably did more to resurrect the two-party system in Maryland than any candidate in the last 25 years. Yeah, she came up a little short, but only because Newt Gingrich didn't have the guts to take on the MD establishment.
O'Malley began running for the governorship as soon as Ehrlich won in 2002. He was annoyed he was pushed aside for Kennedy Townsend.
Good news keeps us from snapping at each other!
I'm glad Maryland can finally do something for the GOP. We only have 4 or 5 Blue counties, but they hold the population. I've said it forever, if you can convert a respectable percentage of the black vote, MD can be a red state.
And a Maryland flag hangs in the Alamo(:
I agree with the second statement, but not necessarily the first.
A stunning Republican upset in the U.S. Senate race in Michigan (you heard it here first a couple of weeks ago) is my prediction for the biggest victory for the GOP.
Dear Loyolas Mattman,
There's a world of difference between Mr. Keyes and Mr. Steele.
Mr. Keyes is a good guy, but when he's run, he's been someone with a message looking for a place from which to shout his message. Thus, he runs for the Senate in Maryland, for the Senate in Illinois, for the presidency.
Mr. Steele is a local boy deeply involved in and interested in his local community. He was born here, raised here, went to school here, had a business here. He's been involved in party politics from the ground up, working his way to the chairmanship of the county Republican Party, then the state party. He held significant positions in the party here in Maryland during the 1990s, helping to engineer the recovery of the Maryland Republican Party from near-death to at least being on life-support (in 1990, we had 24 Republicans in the state legislature, out of 188 - today we have 58).
Mr. Keyes looked like a carpet-bagger. Mr. Keyes' focus has always been about the big picture, about the national and international scene. When he ran for Senate here, I didn't ever have the sense that it would have mattered whether he was running from Maryland or from anywhere else. Mr. Steele is the real deal. He knows Maryland issues, he's lived them, he's worked them. He, too, has a national and international perspective, but he also knows where his constituents are, and what are the local issues that mean something to them.
In fact, it is this latter quality that will likely win the day for Mr. Steele, should he win. This campaign has shown that while Mr. Steele knows and cares about what counts in Maryland, Mr. Cardin is little more than a DNC cipher.
Don't get me wrong, I like Mr. Keyes. But they are significantly different candidates running wildly different races. Mr. Keyes couldn't have won this election this year, either.
sitetest
One can hope.
Dear Vision,
We have really only three Democrat jurisdictions - the city of Baltimore, and Prince George's and Montgomery Counties. Together, the three of these comprise 43% of the population of Maryland.
The surrounding red counties have the other 57%.
sitetest
LOLOL
Steele / jveritas 2008
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