“Where?s Ben?” the handwritten signs of Steele supporters wanted to know.

The three-way U.S. Senate debate sponsored by the Charles County NAACP, which had been announced in Tuesday?s Examiner on Wednesday, turned into a cordial two-man conversation between Republican Michael Steele and Green Party nominee Kevin Zeese, when Democrat Ben Cardin backed out Thursday morning, eight hours before the debate was supposed to occur.

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