[JohnHuang2]

Morning, my friend =^)

Southack's always interesting and informative.

[Diddle E. Squat]

With so many posts advocating nuking the entire Middle East, deporting every Muslim(who cares if they are citizens), punctuating their posts with phrases like "Everything is going to be all white", and blaming every ill on Mexicans, I just can't imagine why minorities don't flock to the GOP.

[Southack]

Many thanks. For what it's worth, Republicans are currently banking on 8 years of GWB, combined with GWB's close personal friendship with President Fox of Mexico and President Bush's keen grasp of Hispanic issues and language to gradually bring Hispanics over to our side.

8 years of Condi Rice, Page, and Powell, with Rice moving up the ranks into a high-visibility VP role, is probably the best that the Republicans can do for changing the current Black bloc vote, plus the fact that Blacks will favor school vouchers whenever they are available locally, a key platform difference between Dems and Reps.

McCaullife and Carville aren't exactly high-profile minorities, either, so the idea that the people "running" the two Parties are Black and White is a bit deceptive.

So I don't see a bleak picture. Republicans ARE making an effort to reach out to minority voters, and over time this effort will pay off.