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Politics are interesting here in Pennsylvania — and in Ohio and Maryland. In Ohio and Pennsylvania, Lynn Swann and Ken Blackwell are running for governor, and in Maryland, Michael Steele is running for Senate.

And in all three cases, they are giving the Democrats panic attacks. Why?

They’re all black, and Swann and Steele are running neck and neck in the polls with the Democrats (actually, Steele is leading in the most recent Rasmussen poll). Blackwell was ten points behind in the last poll I saw, but he has to fight the stigma of Taft, the state governor with the lowest approval rating in the United States.

Steele and Blackwell have been attacked with the same “oreo” rhetoric Condi Rice got, though so far, Swann has not. But this time, it’s not working.

These are exciting times, certainly. And what would three elected black Republicans do to the Democrat minority plantation, when people see that conservatives vote for minority candidates, and don’t wear KKK hoods?

With all due respect to J.C. Watts, here, this is the Year of the Black Conservative.

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