- Offering an "Economic Message" and Better Music at Conventions!
Buoyed by new polling that shows Sen. John Kerry
struggling to win the majority of African-American voters that went for
Al Gore in 2000, the Bush campaign is developing a plan to woo more
blacks to the GOP side. Campaign
officials said that the Bush team would do that by promoting its tax
cut proposals for small businesses, many of which are owned by blacks
and other minorities. "Ours will be an economic message," said an
administration official. New polling finds that support for Kerry among
blacks has dropped from 83 percent in August to 73 percent now, while
Bush's numbers have doubled to 12 percent. Bush advisers said that
while the number backing the President is still small, the lack of
support for Kerry could cost him the presidency. Bush officials said
that their pitch to the black community is that the Democrats take
their vote for granted and that the Kerry campaign is making no drive
to woo them. In fact, the Republicans are ridiculing the Kerry
campaign's appointment of Rev. Jesse Jackson as a senior advisor, and
even the choice of music during the Democratic Convention where singers
like Carole King were featured. "Talk about out of touch," said one
Bush insider, who suggested that Republicans have reached out to
younger black leaders for help and featured modern black artists as the GOP convention.[more]
- More Rove Propoganda about the Black vote from wack Republican paper the Washington Times [more
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