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Assume for a moment that she keeps most if not all of the voters that Bush got this 'time round.

Bush increased his share of the black vote from eight percent to twelve percent. Condoleezza Rice is a conservative black woman but she is a black woman who never lets audiences forget that she remembers where she came from.

She will approach 20% of the black vote, easily, by going around the NAACP and going into the Black Church, which she knows like the back of her hand. If she gets anywhere near that number, or even more, we are talking an electoral landslide-as several upper Midwestern states, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and possibly Washington state slide into our column.

Again, this stuff is REALLY early.

But it's worth thinking about. Don't dismiss her pull on black voters just because she is Republican.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

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Assume for a moment that she keeps most if not all of the voters that Bush got this 'time round.

She won't. Around 40% of Bush voters said in a recent poll they won't vote for a woman for President. Rice cannot win enough black Kerry voters to make up for the difference.

Also, I have questions for each of the Rice supporters who have attacked me here. Is she pro-life? What is her stand on gay marriage? Does she want to increase taxes? How about immigration, will she secure our border?

You don't know the answer to these questions because Condi has never answered them. And I suspect that many of her positions on the issues are not something you'd support.

Yet, here you are pushing a candidate for PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, and you don't even know where she stands on the issues.