A courtship worth watching

I had previously posted an article on how the GOP is making a concerted effort to reach out to the Black community. Dan Gilgoff, over at USNEWS.com has an article which adds more light onto this issue. The article notes that, Conservatives come calling, and blacks may be listening this time.

The articleconcludes with this paragraph:

"For now, these new outreach efforts are in their infancy; the Mayflower group won't have office space till next month. But analysts agree that the GOP needs only modest gains to make a big difference. "For us, 20 percent [of the black vote] would be the death knell of the Democrats," says Phyllis Berry Myers, a Mayflower founder. It doesn't sound like an outsize goal. For Democrats, that's a sobering thought."

For years the dems have been taking the black vote as a given. Perhaps those days are over. - Sailor