Post by bluebutterfly on May 21, 2004 18:50:33 GMT -5
Bush, Blacks and Iraq
War May Make It Tough for the President to Make Inroads With Minority Voters
President Bush's campaign advisers sat down and crunched some numbers after the 2000 election and hypothesized that, because of the growth of minority populations, if whites and non-whites voted in the same proportions they did in the 2000 election, Democrats would win the White House by about three million votes in 2004.
...The sour mood among black voters is reinforced by a 9.3 percent black unemployment rate in April -- almost double the 4.8 percent rate for whites. The black unemployment rate is up almost three percentage points since April 2000.
Combine this with a feeling among some blacks, Hispanics and poor whites that they are bearing most of the burden for fighting and dying in the war, while the sons and daughters of the rich are spared and rewarded with huge tax cuts, and the result is outright anger...
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41971-2004May20_2.html
War May Make It Tough for the President to Make Inroads With Minority Voters
President Bush's campaign advisers sat down and crunched some numbers after the 2000 election and hypothesized that, because of the growth of minority populations, if whites and non-whites voted in the same proportions they did in the 2000 election, Democrats would win the White House by about three million votes in 2004.
...The sour mood among black voters is reinforced by a 9.3 percent black unemployment rate in April -- almost double the 4.8 percent rate for whites. The black unemployment rate is up almost three percentage points since April 2000.
Combine this with a feeling among some blacks, Hispanics and poor whites that they are bearing most of the burden for fighting and dying in the war, while the sons and daughters of the rich are spared and rewarded with huge tax cuts, and the result is outright anger...
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41971-2004May20_2.html
