Let me return, briefly, to the post I did yesterday on Republican Michael Steele's effort to bamboozle Maryland voters into thinking he was the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate there.

A number of Maryland readers have rightly pointed out that way I wrote "Steele Democrat" in the post doesn't do it justice. On C-SPAN, Steele defended his campaign's use of the phrase "Steele Democrat" as a play on "Reagan Democrats."

The way the phrase appeared in the field was:

STEELE
DEMOCRAT

A couple of examples are here and here.

OK, carry on.