Black Voters: "They didn't like Bush before. They like him even less now"

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"GOP and black voters: A shaky courtship
For blacks, suspicion of Republican Party runs deep"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6065770/

“There’s an issue of trust; it has nothing to do with issues or policy — though I won't say policy is nothing,” said Bositis, a longtime observer of minority voting trends. “The problem is that African Americans don't trust the Republican Party because it's a white Southern party. They don't trust the Republican Party to do things in their interest.”

“During Bush's term, unemployment has risen almost 50 percent, incomes have fallen ... and there's no group in the United States that opposed the Iraqi war like African Americans,” Bositis said. “They didn't like before. They like him even less now — even less than Ronald Reagan.”

On National Public Radio, Cornel West, a prominent author and professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University, said he doubts Republicans will be successful in their pursuit of black voters.

“The history of American conservatism is still there on the minds of black folks,” West said in an Oct. 6 NPR interview. “They know that conservatives opposed any critique of Jim Crow and American apartheid, they know that Republicans still stand for redistribution of wealth away from poor people to the well-to-do."

[candy331]

1. Is this new news? n/t

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

2. MSNBC seems to think so, and it's probably news to Bush

:shrug:

[fob]

3. WTF was that report on AAR then? They just had one of those news

snippets and the woman reading it said that bush* was making gains in the black community. She reported that Kerry garners support 4 to 1 over bush* which is a decrease from 2000 and that bush*s numbers have improved with blacks over 50 and those identifying themselves as christian conservatives.

I thought, that sounds like so much bullshit, but even if it were true, why repeat it on AAR?


Head, spinning...