Dean expedites courting of black vote
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The Democratic Party can no longer sit back and wait until three weeks before an election to ask minorities for their vote, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Friday.
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As polls suggest gains for President Bush among black voters, Democrats are trying to solidify their bloc.
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Bloomberg - Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidates made last-minute appeals to blacks, women and young voters in a dash across South Carolina before today's primary.
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Howard Dean, who is weighing a bid for leadership of the Democratic Party, will call on Democrats to fight for victory across the country instead of ceding wide swaths of the South and West to Republicans.
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has been able to cool tempers by tapping into a reservoir of black political supporters.
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There are echoes of Jesse Jacksonâs candidacy as the battle for the Democratic nomination once again roars across the South, focused squarely on African Americans.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice finds Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama appealing and says it won't be much longer before race isn't a barrier to becoming president.
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With the presidential election four months away, candidates are working to seduce alienated and disadvantaged ethnic populations.
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Last time ballots were cast in New Hampshire's presidential primary, hardly anyone in the U.S. knew the name Barack Obama. Now he is a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination hoping that momentum will propel him to become the first black president.
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is reaching out to fellow blacks in his first advertising effort in South Carolina, a minute-long spot scheduled to begin airing Wednesday on 36 radio stations with predominantly black listenership.
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SELMA, Alabama  - Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, joined by former President Bill Clinton, descended on a hallowed shrine of the civil rights movement on Sunday to court black voters who could help decide the party's presidential nominee.
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Barack Obama is walking a tricky racial line, trying to excite black support in the South without getting tagged as "the black candidate" and scaring off anybody else.
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Sen. John Edwards asked black voters to help Democrat John Kerry in "this march toward justice and equality" and urged Floridians to vote early as he continued a three-day tour of their state Sunday.
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Republicans have been trying to suppress voting in states where the presidential race is too close to call, Democratic nominee John Kerry said Sunday at one of the city's largest predominantly black churches.
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COLUMBUS, OHIO - John Kerry appealed to African-American voters on Sunday, as he pushed ahead with his campaign to unseat George W. Bush.
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As Howard Deanâs campaign proved four years ago, it takes more than a core group of dedicated, Web-savvy supporters to win votes.
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The head of the Democratic Party said Friday blacks have an added incentive to vote in November: Democratic control of the House would give key committee chairmanships to African-American lawmakers.