(or, Why I'm Voting Democrat in 2004)
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Why then does The Washington Post/ABC poll done in May show only 6 percent support among blacks for Bush? This is 2 percent less than he got in 2000.
Purportedly, during his meeting with the Brazilian president (4/28/02), Bush interrupted Cardoso to ask, "Do you have blacks, too?"
"That's the kind of thing that causes people to say, 'Wait a minute, you know the photo-op syndrome is nice, he's waving to us, he's smiling, he's over in Africa with tears in his eyes almost and all that, but I don't have a paycheck,'" Cummings said.
