2 times 0 = 0, but news still not good -- Poll: Bush Doubles Support Among Blacks.

Exit polls in 2000 showed Gore winning 90 percent of the black vote, with Bush at 9 percent - the lowest support for a Republican presidential candidate since Barry Goldwater garnered 6 percent in 1964.

According to a poll released Tuesday, President Bush has doubled his support among blacks in four years and Sen. John Kerry's backing among the key Democratic voting bloc is down slightly from the support Al Gore won in 2000.

The Democratic presidential nominee holds a nearly 4-to-1 margin over Bush in the poll by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington-based research group that focuses on issues concerning blacks.

(10-19-04 AP.) (UPDATED: see also 10-20-04 Washington Post.)
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While legislators in my part of the state certainly contributed to the gay- bashing constitutional amendment being on the Nov. 2 ballot, black urban legislators provided the Christian Coalition with the margin needed for its victory (a 2 vote margin I recall).

Here's to hoping black voters don't heed Sadie Fields' call to vote for the cowboy on Nov. 2.