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 unusually large percentages of black and Hispanic votes in his home state. Even so, the Joint Center poll indicates blacks like some of Bush's ideas better than they like Bush. On the issues, the poll showed blacks and Bush were not so far apart.