[lormand]

Don't you just love a fractured DemocRAT party?

[mykdsmom]

He...he...he, don't ya LOVE it NC PING!

MKM

[cynicom]

Dems take blacks for granted and the blacks never fail. they deserve each other.

[gitmo]

Irksome Bowels are so unpredictable.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

"The very fact that he would be seen with Clinton in the African-American community, or may indeed pull Bill Clinton out of his back pocket in the closing days of this election in the African-American community, but wouldn't dare be seen with him in the broader community -- that's pandering," said Cash Michaels, of The Carolinian.

He learned it (pandering) from the master...

[winin2000]

Polls show Dole has 6 percent support among minority voters

This is pathetic. What did Liddy Dole ever do to them?

I will never grasp this knee-jerk hostility among blacks to Republicans in the South. But it does make me relish winning anyway all the more!

[southernnorthcarolina]

Odd article. It theorizes that black turnout may be depressed because of Bowles distancing himself from Clinton, and due to the fact that Jesse Helms (a lightening rod for black turnout) won't be on the ballot. But the article misses the biggest reason why black turnout may be off: Dan Blue. Blue, who is black (haha), finished second in the Dem primary, and took his time (as I recall, a month or so), before endorsing Bowles, and then with a notable lack of enthusiasm.

Anyway, Bowles doesn't come across as one who would attract a devoted black following: an "Eastern establishment" sort; an investment banker; member of several prestiguous country clubs until he decided to run (whereupon he withdrew from most of them); and married into big money. Bowles has tried to cultivate the "good ole boys" by working stock car racing and bowling into his ads and PR stunts (efforts which have been widely hooted at); I can hardly wait till he heads down to the hood and tries to pass himself off as a "bro."

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/723210/posts

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