Mike Duncan has ended his bid for another term as RNC chairman, telling the hall that “the winds of change are blowing” in the party, and endorsing no one. Ohio GOP chairman Bob Bennett asked for a 15-minute recess and was loudly booed. There is no recess. Voting continues without More…
Michael Steele and Ken Blackwell just conferred in the hallway outside the main room, with Steele doing most of the talking. Steele tried to brush aside the ideological disagreements they’d had (“from day one”) and stress how both of them (“and J.C.,” referring to J.C. Watts, the former Oklahoma congressman) More…
The third ballot:
Michael Steele – 51
Mike Duncan – 44
Katon Dawson – 34
Saul Anuzis – 24
Ken Blackwell – 15
Patrick Ruffini’s nightmare of a Dawson-Steele race is looking more and more possible. Lots of eyes on Anuzis, who knows he’s been beaten. More…
The spin from Michael Steele’s camp was a little overzealous. The results:
Mike Duncan – 48
Michael Steele – 48
Katon Dawson – 29
Saul Anuzis – 24
Ken Blackwell – 19
Duncan and Blackwell drop, Dawson and Anuzis gain, everyone else holds. Of course, Duncan’s More…
Some RNC staff and hardcore Mike Duncan supporters are seated right next to ballot box. When Duncan walked by during the first ballot (he’s a voter, too), they cheered and his smiled back at them. He just walked by for the second ballot. More cheers. No smile from Duncan.
Former Maryland Lieutenant Gov. Michael Steele’s supporters and voters are beaming with confidence. One says that Steele has a 50 percent chance of winning the Republican National Committee chairmanship on the second ballot. “We’re very close.” James Pelura, head of the Maryland GOP, is confidentially dismissing current RNC Chairman Mike More…
The first ballot results:
Mike Duncan – 52
Michael Steele – 46
Katon Dawson – 28
Saul Anuzis – 22
Ken Blackwell – 20
Gasps came out of the crowd when the low Duncan total was announced; there were cheers for Steele when his number was announced.
Here’s how the balloting for the Republican National Committee chair vote works. There are 168 voters: when one man gets 85 votes, he wins. They can choose between five candidates, and everyone here knows that Mike Duncan, the incumbent chairman, is ahead. How close he gets to 85 votes on More…
Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell’s campaign team are making it known that Chip Saltsman, who dropped out of the Republican National Committee chairman race yesterday, has endorsed the black Ohio pol.
Last month, Blackwell defended Saltsman and blamed the media for the “Magic Negro” story. More…
The Twitter-crazed Michigan GOP chairman, Saul Anuzis, is nominated by Rev. Keith Butler, a black pastor who whom he “walked the streets of Detroit, supporting [former Rep.] Jack Kemp.” Anuzis, says Butler, is willing to “go into the ghettos, into the barrios” to spread the Republican message. When it comes More…
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