As Robert Novak points out:

Richmond Myrick, the principal of Largo High School, is a registered Democrat in overwhelmingly Democratic Prince George's County next to Washington, D.C. He has not been active politically and is not recorded as having made any contributions to candidates for federal office. Yet recently, he stood in the parking lot of Prince George's Community College adjoining his school to introduce Republican Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, whom he has endorsed for the U.S. Senate.

Myrick is African American, as are most students at Largo High. So is Steele. If enough non-political blacks follow Myrick's course, Steele will become the first black Republican elected to the Senate in 32 years. That is the Democrats' worst nightmare. Democratic dominance in Maryland has been based on maintaining a hammerlock over the state's substantial African-American vote. Steele threatens that domination.

Steele sees national implications and put it to me this way in a conversation before the recent rally in Upper Marlboro: "It's a breaking point. I've heard the talk: 'Hillary, Bill, Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, all are coming in to campaign against you. They can't bear to see you win this race.' If I win this race, I am sure that the whole dynamic changes."

Steele isn't alone, of course - I think these same four heavyweights will also be taking some trips to Ohio to try and defeat Blackwell and, of course, there still is the Democratic worry about what Lynn Swann might end up doing in Pennsylvania.

In 2004, about 20 million votes were cast by black Americans - 88% of whom voted for John Kerry. That is a bit more than 17.5 million of Kerry's 59 million votes - nearly 30% of Kerry's voters were black Americans. It is this sort of thing which illustrates how vital it is for Democrats to score such a high percentage of the black vote. Had black Americans voted about evenly between Kerry and Bush, then instead of President Bush winning by 62 million to 59 million votes, itwould have been about 70 million to 51 million...and Bush probably would have ended up winning 337 electoral votes instead of the 286 he secured. Anything less than overwhelming black support for the Democrats means electoral destruction for the Democrats - it would, also, go all down the line. There are probably 50 House seats the Democrats hold by grace of 90% or the black vote, and probably a few Democratic Senators who owe their seats to a heavy black vote in their favor.

The Democrats know this - and thus they will pull out all the stops in their efforts to defeat Steele. Already they have been hurling racial slurs at him, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has fired some staffers who illegally obtained Steele's credit report. Don't for a moment think that because Steele is clean as a whistle that this will stop them - in the end, if they have to, they'll just make up slanders about him. For the Democrats, nothing would be more disasterous than to have a black Republican rise in the eyes of America's black voters.

With this in mind, please take a trip over to Mr. Steele's website - donate money, and if you live in Maryland, volunteer to help out. Its time to get our fellow Americans who happen to be black off the liberal plantation. Time for an alternative to the Democrat's soft bigotry of low expectations.

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