2000 and falling!!

In 2000, George W. Bush received a lower percentage of the black vote than any GOP presidential candidate since Barry Goldwater. (From ajc's 8-2-04 Political Insider discussing Dyland Glenn vs. Lynn Westmoreland in the race for the 8th District congressional seat, and the "R" factor raised by former Speaker of the U.S. House Newt Gingrich and Gingrich's defense of his endorsement of Glenn.)