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Article: Republicans split on way to lure back black voters.
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 13, 2000
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A fateful struggle is taking place inside the Republican Party over racial and ethnic politics.
In the still-uncertain aftermath of the Nov. 7 presidential elections, one thing is clear: A huge black turnout favored Democrat Al Gore by nearly 9-1 in the popular vote nationally and gave him the edge in enough swing states to tie up the Electoral College count.
As a result, Republicans are divided as never before over whether to abandon decades of effort to win over the black vote or to start using all means necessary to make the vote less monolithically Democrat.
"The playing field not only is not level, but getting worse," says Peter ...