GOP Drive to Woo Blacks via Church Alarms Brazile

Donna Brazile is one of the few Liberals that actually get it. The GOP is making inroads into a heretofor "safe" liberal voting bloc and it is appropriate she be worried.

An aggressive Republican campaign to court black voters with the help of church
leaders "should be cause for alarm" among Democrats, who risk losing a larger
share of their most loyal political constituency, says Democratic strategist
Donna Brazile.

Miss Brazile, one of her party's most respected voter outreach specialists,
warned Democrats at the start of the 2004 election cycle: "Don't take
African-American voters for granted." At the end of that cycle, President Bush
had increased his share of the black vote to 11 percent nationally and by 13
percent to 16 percent in battleground states such as Ohio, Florida and
Pennsylvania.

Now, Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman is leading a stepped-up drive to lure black voters into the party, with the help of influential ministers in black Baptist churches. And Miss Brazile is sending her party a new warning: The Republicans could make deeper inroads in the black community by the next election.

The black vote is more than crucial for the Left. If the Republicans manage to capture a third of the black vote, it will be decades before the Democrats see the inside of the White House. The coventional wisdom has been forget the black vote, it's unachievable....Bush knows different.