Liz Trota on Fox points out the absence of media interest or comment on the election of the Republican party's first African-American chairman, Michael Steele.
Interestingly, Steele outreach to minorities isn't limited to African-American; as a devout Catholic, he may be able to reach out to ethnic Catholics. From this 2004 NRO article:
Other important influences, he says, include Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Frederick Douglass. Steele, who is Catholic, also names Pope John Paul II as a figure who has inspired him.
Catholicism explains two of the issues — abortion and the death penalty — on which Steele has disagreed publicly with Ehrlich. Whereas the governor is pro-choice, Steele is pro-life, even to the point of having qualms about rape and incest exceptions (which is the place where all principled pro-lifers find themselves, though most pro-life politicians have cut corners in order to make their commitments more palatable to voters). And whereas Ehrlich is a death-penalty proponent, Steele has announced grave concerns over its use.
Yet the man is also a team player. He agrees with Ehrlich on just about every other key issue, most notably Ehrlich's desire to increase state revenues with slot machines.
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