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Oct
LATINO, BLACK VOTERS REASSESSING TIES TO GOP
by QuestionGirl • 3:19 am

Just goes to show……never believe a lying liar.

By Peter Wallsten
Times Staff Writer
Posted October 24 2006

WASHINGTON - A major effort to draw Latinos and blacks into the Republican Party, a central element of the GOP plan to build a long-lasting majority, is in danger of collapse amid anger over the immigration debate and claims that Republican leaders have not delivered on promises to direct more money to church-based social services.

President Bush, strategist Karl Rove and other top Republicans have wooed Latino and black leaders, many of them evangelical clergy who lead large congregations, in hopes of peeling away the traditional Democratic base. But now some of the leaders who helped Bush win in 2004 are revisiting their loyalty to the Republican Party and, in some cases, abandoning it.

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