'We've seen the Republican Party use black people to get our votes and disappear.'
[...] In East Baltimore, Dewain Stuckley, who said he works for public works in Baltimore County, said he, too, stuck with Cardin, O'Malley and all the Democrats. Stuckley looked at a piece of campaign literature with Ehrlich/Steele promoted as Democrats, prompting him to say such trickery is why he does not break from his party.Similar campaign literature turned up in some other predominantly black voting districts in the Baltimore area and Prince George's County.
"That's the tricks they play. The average person that would come in would think they are Democrats and vote Republican," said Stuckley, who voted at Dr. Bernard Harris Sr. Elementary School. "This will confuse people."
| That's from Brent Jones' Baltimore Sun article "I ... got to stick by my party"
[...] Other aspects of Ehrlich's campaign might also have backfired, said Timothy Maloney, a former Prince George's delegate who advised O'Malley. Most notably, he said, were the election-eve fliers that seemed to try to trick voters into believing that Ehrlich had the support of prominent African American leaders.Maloney said he believed that tactic enraged and energized black voters. [...]
| That was from Matthew Mosk and Ann E. Marimow's Washington Post article "Governor and U.S. Senate Losses Just the Tip of State GOP Collapse"
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