Dean's running mate

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

A lot of white Democrats are like that.  Here in Memphis, whenever we run an African-American GOP candidate, we do well with the white GOP vote but the white Democrats that normally vote for us drop off.

In the GOP, the desperation among activists to gain support in the black community usually makes up for and exceeds the racial voters.  At our last county convention - the argument wasn't over whether we should have more black candidates -- the argument was between an older group that thought all we needed to do was run black candidates, and a younger group that felt we needed to develop a relationship with African-Americans and break down the barriers first before worrying about candidates.