Tag: MD-Sen
Striving for DC Area Voters, Steele Makes "Purple Line" an Issue
Behind in the race for the open U.S. Senate seat in Maryland, Republican Michael Steele has evidently targeted the Maryland suburbs of Washingto, DC, as where he might sway some votes from Democrat Ben Cardin to himself. In the only debate televised within the DC media market, Steele began questioning Cardin about the DC suburbs. Steele's goal was to point out to DC suburbanites that Cardin, from Baltimore, did not know the DC area as well as Steele did. Steele succeeded, but, then, a day later, lost the advantage he gained.
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: MD-Sen, Ben Cardin, Michael Steele
Cardin vs. Steele on MTP -- liveblog
Update [2006-10-29 12:52:30 by Ross Smith]: Well, it looks like Steele provided a lot of fodder if Cardin's people can use it in the coming days or in their spin. But in the debate itself, the snap judgement here is that Steele was much better. Add your own analysis.
Here it is, the last of this season's Meet the Press debates.
Based on the preview, expect a lot on stem cells, the Iraq war, and maybe even some "gotcha on the gotcha's" concerning metro line locations.
Just click in and post away . . .
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: MD-Sen, Meet the Press, Tim Russert, Michael Steele, Benjamin Cardin
Cardin vs. Steele - Meet the Press Debate Preview
The Meet the Press Senate Debate series comes to a close tomorrow morning with a debate that once seemed an anticlimactic ending to the series. NO LONGER! Tomorrow's MTP debate between Benjamin Cardin (D) and Michael Steele (R) could not come at a more pivotal time. The two are locked in a surprisingly tight race which Charlie Cook has moved from "Lean Democratic to Toss Up." Over the past week the race has received national attention stemming from Michael J. Fox's television ad supporting Cardin and the subsequent furor ignited by Rush Limbaugh.
In a pre-debate interview with an NBC affiliate in Baltimore, moderator Tim Russert pitched the MD-Sen race as a "battleground" and pledged that:
If Mr. Steele or Mr. Cardin refuses to answer the question, I will make that very clear to the viewers. My job is to elicit from these candidates their specific, exact positions on these issues.
All indications are that the debate will last the full hour which should give Russert plenty of time to accomplish his goal.
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: MD-Sen, Benjamin Cardin, Michael Steele, Meet the Press
Cardin vs. Steele Debate Matches Ad Strategies
The October 3rd debate between Democrat Ben Cardin and Republican Michael Steele for the U.S. Senate from Maryland saw both men do, in person, what their television advertisements were already doing in the Baltimore, MD, and Washington, DC, markets. Cardin tried repeatedly to associate Steele, whose ads don't even mention that he is a Republican, with President Bush. Steele tried to position himself as an agent of change and Cardin as part of a corrupt establishment. Beneath the surface were their appeals to the state's African-American voters.
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: MD-Sen, Ben Cardin, Michael Steele, George W. Bush, African-American Voters
Maryland Senate October 29 Debate Details
WHO: Candidates to be determined by the September 12th primary
WHEN: October 29
WHERE: Washington, DC - "Meet the Press"
SPONSOR: Meet the Press
SOURCE: Meet the Press
From MTP's website:
"Meet the Press" created its "Senate Debate Series" in 2002, hosting debates from Colorado, South Carolina and Louisiana. The series was well received and went on to win the prestigious USC Annenberg Walter Cronkite Award for "Excellence in Television Political Journalism." In 2004, "Meet the Press" continued the Debate Series with much success featuring the Senate races from South Dakota, Oklahoma, Colorado and South Carolina.
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