Breaking on GEMSNBC - Duncan withdraws bid

[malaise]

for re-election.

[Connie_Corleone]

1. So, it's going to be Steele?

[geek tragedy]

2. I was hoping for "Segregation now, segregation forever" Dawson. n/t

[malaise]

3. Steele leading

This should be fun.

[SteppingRazor]

4. Might still happen. I expect a lot of Duncan's votes to go to Dawson, not Steele. n/t

[tekisui]

5. Totally unrelated,

Check out the first shot of this thread. :)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=280x49678

[SteppingRazor]

7. Pretty cool!

I'm sure the doctor would approve of a little harmless yet HST-aggrandizing vandalism.

[malaise]

6. I'm sure when this is over Steele will lose

or a lot of people will be very upset.

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. Steel then because the vote was tied last time

I don't think they have anyone else that wants it.



In a more diverse America, a mostly white RNC
...Only 36 of the 2,380 delegates seated on the convention floor are black, the lowest number since the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies began tracking diversity at political conventions 40 years ago. Each night, the overwhelmingly white audience watches a series of white politicians step to the lectern -- a visual reminder that no black Republican has served as a governor, U.S. senator or U.S. House member in the past six years.

"It's hard to look around and not get frustrated," said Michael S. Steele, a black Republican and former lieutenant governor of Maryland. "You almost have to think, 'Wait. How did it come to this?'

Geez louise, Mike, have you been sleeping for the last twenty-five sixty years? Between Richard Nixon and Strom Thurmond's hate-filled southern strategy, Ronald Reagan fabricating stories of welfare queens and ignoring urban issues, George H. W. Bush's infamous Willie Horton commercial, the GOP's continuing efforts to disenfranchise black voters, the right's continued efforts to foster their school voucher scam on inner-city parents, Bush and McCain's callous disregard for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, and -- just yesterday -- the GOP's unrestrained assault on community organizers...

...quite honestly, Mike, if you still can't figure out why most blacks (or anyone else who isn't white and wealthy) are shunning the Republican Party, you're simply the Biggest Idiot on the Planet.

[malaise]

11. Dawson in front now after 4th round

Isn't Dawson the one who resigned from an all white country club recently

[Ichingcarpenter]

13. Yep........ South Carolina is the last powerhouse for the Republicans

Isn't that where the Civil War Started?? Something called Ft. Sumner?

LOL

[Ichingcarpenter]

12. Katen Dawson is in the lead now..... he's from SOUTH CAROLINA

He's the one that didn't know his country club forbid blacks from attending
for 80 years.

[WI_DEM]

9. bid for what?

[progressoid]

10. GOP chairman eom

[malaise]

16. Down to three now

I hope Steele loses. I want Rushicans to show their true colors.

[progressoid]

14. Why? What skeleton has forced him to "spend more time with his family"?

[malaise]

15. He was losing votes by the round

Looks like Blackwell is about to throw in the towel as well.

Yep he's gone. He's backing Steele now.

[progressoid]

17. Isn't Steele supposed to be the "moderate" one?

God, immagine what would have happened with Blackwell in there! Yikes.

[malaise]

18. I want their most racist, reactionary moron to win

Go Dawson!! Anuzis dropping out now.

[progressoid]

19. Hmmm...A Black man vs a man whose country club excluded Blacks.

:eyes: