"AP Poll: GOP Outreach to Blacks Falters"

[GreenPartyVoter]

WASHINGTON (AP) - So much for the Republican charm offensive toward minorities. Black voters are far less likely to approve of the way President Bush is doing his job than voters generally and they are more likely to feel that the country is on the wrong track, disheartening news for a Republican Party that has been trying to curry favor with minority voters in recent years.

In what could be a particularly bad sign for Republicans in next week's midterm elections, black voters also are more likely to say that the Iraq war was a mistake and that recent disclosures of scandal and corruption in Congress will be very important to their vote, according to an Associated Press-AOL Black Voices poll conducted Oct. 23 through Monday.

Black voters have historically voted Democratic, and their votes are critical to Democratic hopes to win tight Senate contests in Tennessee, Missouri and Virginia.

Unhappiness among black voters is reflected by L.C. Washington, a 41-year-old Democratic graduate student from Montgomery, Ala., who says Bush is "the worst president in history," not to mention "the dumbest president I've ever seen - he's the devil." Washington lays blame for a laundry list of ills at the Republican Party's doorstep.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20061031/D8L3QI5O3.html

[AndyTiedye]

1. Now Why Might That Be?

[calimary]

2. Charm offensive? How 'bout just simply offensive.

I can't see why any black voters would align themselves with the republi-CONS.

And as long as I have your attention...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2918082&mesg_id=2918082

Thank you! MORE things we really should be talking about.

[stepnw1f]

3. How Come?

[TlalocW]

4. Doesn't an agenda need to actually be moving

Or people need to push the agenda ahead for it to falter? Shouldn't that headline read, "GOP Outreach to Black Voters Retains Inertia?"

TlalocW

[BlooInBloo]

5. Another lie. It's not faltering. It never existed. It was JUST a pr campaign.

EDIT: And you have to be a damned idiot to believe that it DID exist. Hello? This is the republican party folks.

[AspenRose]

6. "...he's the devil."

Hugo, is that you? :D