Black voters appear to be rejecting the Republican nominee like a spurned prom date.
That's one message to be drawn from a new national poll by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington-based think tank that tracks racial trends. That has to be disappointing for the Bush team. Their man has pulled, for a Republican, unusually large percentages of the black and Hispanic votes in his home state. Earlier Bush addressed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which is heavily Democratic, and, more recently, he has campaigned with prominent black Americans like retired Gen. Colin Powell and national security expert Condoleezza Rice. Even so, the joint center poll indicates that blacks like some of Bush's ideas better than they like Bush.