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Kerry having to campaign for black support

Washington Times:

Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry has spent part of the past three Sundays at predominantly black churches in Florida and Ohio, as a new poll shows President Bush doing twice as well among black Americans as he did in 2000.
Turning out black voters at a higher percentage than the general population, Republican pollsters said, was critical to Democrats' success in the 1998 congressional elections and to Democratic candidate Al Gore's popular vote win in 2000.

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But the new poll by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies found Mr. Kerry drawing 69 percent support among black residents and Mr. Bush receiving 18 percent, suggesting that Mr. Kerry has some distance to go.
"I think the poll is reflective in one sense of a trend I've seen the last six weeks, of a trend toward President Bush among African-American voters," said Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, a Republican who is traveling to key states with other black Republicans to combat Democrats' charges of voter intimidation.
"The Democrats are concerned about that, which is why you see this stepped up effort to demonize the president and the party by calling us racist," Mr. Steele said.

The Dems are so unpopular with white men and married white women that they literally must have 90 plus percent of the black vote to have a chance. Black conservative christians are supporting President Bush for among other reasons his opposition to saame sex marriage. This explains the Kerry campaigns gratutious mention of Mary Cheney's homosexuality.

This is one factor that suggest the polls may be underestitmating Bush's overall lead. The "internals" of most polls also suggest that Bush should have a bigger lead than the horse race figures reflect.