Kerry Makes Pitch to Undecided, Black Voters

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By Patricia Wilson

TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - Democratic Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) on Sunday made a last-minute pitch for undecided voters with a message of change and reached out to black Americans with a scripture-laden appeal to help him restore economic justice.


Locked in a tight race with Republican President Bush (news - web sites) two days before Americans go to the polls, Kerry said the world was waiting for a United States "that understands how to lead by its moral strength and by its reasoning, not by ideological rigidity and by misleading."


The four-term senator from Massachusetts and decorated Vietnam War veteran said 35 years of trying to keep the country safe meant he could do a better job than Bush in Iraq (news - web sites) and fighting terror.


In an effort to reassure Americans concerned about changing commanders in chief in the midst of war, Kerry said he had more experience than the president, a former governor of Texas, and added: "I understand in my gut; I know how to make this country and our troops safer than George Bush (news - web sites) has."

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