But we don't just want to be marketed to. Brent Wilkes, executive director of the League of United Latin American Citizens, said Bush's plan to divide the Immigration and Naturalization Service into separate agencies for law enforcement and citizenship processing appeals to Hispanics, as does his plan to require public schools be more accountable for the money they spend and the test scores their students receive. Yet Wilkes said those policy proposals will likely not be enough to sway the majority of Hispanics. Courting the African-American Vote Bush could face an even steeper challenge in wooing black voters. Most political analysts agree his difficulties are based on the fact that black voters have historically been allied with the Democratic Party.
Blacks are the most loyal Democratic voters.
Though the GOP has tried to bridge the gap between the party and African-Americans by recruiting more minority candidates, black Republicans often have a harder time convincing other blacks to vote for them than they do persuading whites. Both incumbents, like their challengers, are African-American. Part of Bush's effort to court minorities has been a pledge that he will include them in his Cabinet and on his White House staff. The Philadelphia convention officers reflect Bush's attempts at diversity. Watts and Pennsylvania party activist Renee Amoore are two of the African-American officers for the convention.