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Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 7:30 AM

Crooks and Liars: Republicans again produce a very white slate

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There was some talk, early on in Bush’s first term, that the Republican Party really, truly intended to take minority outreach seriously. The chairman of the RNC appeared at an NAACP conference to apologize for the party’s past, and White House officials thought they could make a second term more likely if they could boost Republican numbers in the African-American community, even just a little. But this talk hasn’t necessarily produced results . Just a few years after the Republican Party launched a highly publicized diversity effort, the GOP is heading into the 2008 election without a single minority candidate with a plausible chance of winning a campaign for the House, the Senate or governor. At a time when Democrats are poised to...
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