As recently as 1956, the GOP captured 39 percent of the black vote. If Republicans can seize just 20 or 30 percent of the black vote, the Democratic Party — and its ability to pull the country to the left — could be stopped, if not reversed.
“The ‘black vote’?” I said to a white Republican politician who asked my advice. “I’ll tell you how to go after it, but you won’t do it.”
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