July 8, 2008 - 8:39pm
Steele thinks McCain shouldn't give up on the black vote
By Wally Edge
Former Lt. Gov. Michael SteeleFormer Lt. Gov. Michael Steele met with Republican presidential nominee John McCain this afternoon along with several other black former GOP office-holders like J.C. Watts of Oklahoma and and Ohio's Ken Blackwell.
The discussion focused on what McCain could do to win over black voters. Steele told him many of the same things he told National Public Radio a week and a half ago.
As Steele encouraged McCain to engage African American leaders, at the same time he doubted they could again pull the 11 percent of the demographic's voters that George W. Bush garnered in 2004.
Nonetheless, Steele thinks it's important he make the effort and tried to connect with minority voters by citing his adoption of a Bangladeshi daughter.
Some political analysts have suggested that the simple perception of McCain reaching out to blacks is important to him winning independent white voters.
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