Will Al Gore get the black vote? Yeah. Will Gore have to worry and make sure those voters turn out? Yeah, he has to worry a lot.

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Rita was Bush putting on a show. Bush and his people took a lot of heavy hits in their response to Katrina. They wanted to be sure that this time around they projected an image of effectiveness.

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It's not just the way the Bush administration responded to Katrina, but events afterwards. There's too much history.... The center of gravity of the Republican Party is white Southerners, the group African-Americans trust the least.

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I'm pleased that Bush has decided to address the NAACP. But the chances of him getting any benefits from it are small.

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Potentially make Texas more competitive in the not-too-distant future.

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Republicans always think that if they make some small [outreach] gestures, that African Americans will applaud their good intentions, ... They still don't understand that African Americans would look at those Bush moves and conclude: 'Those people really don't like us.' .

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They can't be much more united than in the past -- it's nearly impossible -- but they will certainly be unified.

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Regardless of the issues, African-Americans aren't going to vote Republican because they don't trust the Republican Party.

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