[Kuksool]

According to the exit polls, Bush won 16% of the OH black vote. A higher rate than any other battleground state. I suspect the presence of Ken Blackwell had something to do with it. Last year was a horrible year for African-American conservative. We had 3 electable candidates: Dylan Glenn, Vernon Robinson, and Herman Cain. Instead, the primary voters selected boring, white RINOS. These defeats give the Left cheap fodder to say the GOP is hostile to minorities, especially with the elections of Ken Salazar and Barack Obama. I suspect RINOS want the GOP to flop on minority outreach. Because the type of minorities open to the GOP message are social conservative ones. RINOS figure the less social conservatives, the better. In fact many RINOS think using abortion to reduce the minority population strengthens them politically.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"I suspect RINOS want the GOP to flop on minority outreach. Because the type of minorities open to the GOP message are social conservative ones. RINOS figure the less social conservatives, the better."

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Very good point. The only "minority outreach" RINOs want to take part in is meeting with liberal blacks like Jesse Jackson and saying "you see, we need to be "pro-choice" on abortion, pro-affirmative action and pro-gun control in order to win the black vote."

[The Old Hoosier]

Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga) was more conservative than Dylan Glenn.