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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Has taken a hit from both the ongoing things in Iraq and what happened with Katrina.
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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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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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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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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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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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Potentially make Texas more competitive in the not-too-distant future.
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Officials should have realized that the poor were not going to be able to evacuate the way everybody evacuated and some special provisions should have involved community leaders,.. People in those poor, black communities in New Orleans don't trust the government very much. If pastors, doctors and other trusted leaders had been involved, they would have pressured for a plan for people who rely on public transportation.
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