Black voters flee Dems

A new Democrat Poll shows Maryland Republican, Michael Steele, getting as much as 44% of the black vote in his run for the US Senate seat of Maryland's Paul Sarbannes.

When Steele is matched up against a generic DNC candidate, he gets 22% of the black vote, and in the '02 election he received 13% of the vote. In all three cases he is trending ahead of GWB by 2%, 11%, and 33%, respectively.

The WaPo got a copy from the Democrats. The number of those polled was 489 but no margin of error was mentioned. Watch for more of the same to happen in Ohio. Almost persuaded, but the trending is hopeful.

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