GOP's African Americans keeping distance from Keyes
Saturday, September 4, 2004 at 07:19PM
TheSpook
Alan Keyes, the Republicans' choice for the U.S.
Senate, left his party's national convention early Thursday to return
to Illinois and watch George W. Bush's acceptance speech on television.
There was little chance he would be missed here. That's not surprising,
given the stir he caused with comments about Vice President Dick
Cheney's daughter's homosexual lifestyle. But Keyes' campaign also
hasn't been publicly embraced by powerful African-American Republicans
at the convention. Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, never touched on
the Keyes campaign despite evoking Keyes' opponent Barack Obama's name
in his speech on Tuesday. Steele quipped that Obama gave a "moving
defense of the conservative principles of the Republican Party" in his
speech at the Democratic National Convention in July. "I won't comment
on Ambassador Keyes' decision to run the race that he is running in
Illinois," Steele said in an interview. "He has made a very strategic
decision. Maybe he sees something in polling trends that I don't see. I
don't know. I can't comment on that." [more ]
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