We now know where the RNC chairmanship race is going: The black candidate versus the white Southerner candidate.
Here are the vote totals from the fourth round of voting, compared to the third round held right before incumbent Mike Duncan dropped out:
⢠Dawson 62 (+28)
⢠Steele 60 (+9)
⢠Anuzis 31 (+7)
⢠Blackwell 15 (+0)
So Michael Steele has lost the lead he achieved on the third ballot, and is now narrowly trailing South Carolina GOP chairman Katon Dawson.
This is now pitting Steele, an African-American conservative who has criticized the GOP for failing to reach out to minority voters, against Dawson — who until recently belonged to an all-white country club, and has said he got involved with politics as a teenager in opposition to busing programs.
