[winner3000]

I agree with you that vouchers and education reform based on competition and parental choice are the key to winning black voters.

2 more points:

The best way to get a black Democrat to the poll is to scare him into it. Remember the dragging death of a black man in Texas in 2000? Well, I don't remember any such incident in 2002. Be on the lookout for some real ugly race baiting in 2004.

"Where is *their* Condaleeza Rice or Colin Powell?"
Theirs are unelectable. Is it due to racism? No. Because of gerrymandered "safe" seats, their black elected officials are too socialist, too extremist, too left wing, and too darn bigoted to be electable on a state-wide or nation-wide basis.
Both Condaleeza Rice and Colin Powell can win state or national-wide office because they have been appointed to their positions based on their skills, not on their race. However, liberals are not waiting for them to be elected to attack them for being uncle Toms, house slaves, etc...

[Lysandru]

"Where is *their* Condaleeza Rice or Colin Powell?" Theirs are unelectable. Is it due to racism? No. Because of gerrymandered "safe" seats, their black elected officials are too socialist, too extremist, too left wing, and too darn bigoted to be electable on a state-wide or nation-wide basis.

Word up! I am constantly appalled by the fact that the black politicians in the Democratic Party are such left-wing wackos. They are a disgrace. I once had a neighbor (in Pennsylvania of all places) who thought that black Americans were unpatriotic-- because of idiots like these. I let her have it-- I knew too many great black people in the Army who were ready to die for this great country.