Last week we reported former Governor Paris Glendening's endorsement of Kweisi Mfume for the Democratic nomination to the US Senate seat being vacated by the retirement of incumbent Democrat Paul Sarbanes. Now Mfume adds the endorsements of the state's two black congressmen, as Jonathan E. Kaplan reports in The Hill:
Maryland Democratic Reps. Al Wynn and Elijah Cummings will endorse former Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-Md.) on Wednesday in his bid to win the party's Senate nomination in the Sept. 12 primary, a spokesman for Mfume's campaign said.
The Democrats in the Maryland congressional delegation have split along racial lines. Wynn and Cummings, who are black, will back Mfume while Reps. Steny Hoyer, the minority whip, and Dutch Ruppersberger, who are white, have contributed money to Rep. Ben Cardin.Only Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) has not given money to either candidate.
About 30 percent of Maryland's population is black and the community is an important segment of the Democratic vote, especially in Baltimore and Prince George's County, which account for more than 75 percent of the Democratic nominee's vote, according to the Baltimore Sun. Forty percent of primary voters could be black.
Read the whole story at the link above.
Most polls show Republican nominee Lt. Gov. Michael Steele trailing both Mfume and Rep. Cardin, but he is more competitive against Mfume. This seat is one of the few held by Democrats which Republicans have any chance of picking up this year.
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Pray and Claim the seat bec... (Below threshold)1. Posted by A. Reginald Eaves | September 7, 2006 7:57 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Pray and Claim the seat because the people. we, need you
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