Black voters get high level of attention in Senate races
Thursday, June 24, 2004 at 02:46AM
TheSpook
U.S. Senate candidate Peter Deutsch began a radio campaign Tuesday described as one of the largest statewide efforts to attract black voters. The commercials, estimated to cost the Democratic congressman representing Broward and Miami-Dade at least $250,000, will air on urban radio stations continuously over the next 10 weels until the Aug. 31 primary election. ''That has never been done before,'' U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings said during a teleconference organized by the Deutsch campaign. Radio ads aimed at black voters typically don't begin until the last few weeks of a campaign. [more]
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