BUSH MAY GET LARGER PORTION OF BLACK VOTE: From the Washington Post

[Or he may not, you know? --Eve]

A significant number of black Americans -- 18 percent -- said they are willing to vote for President Bush, even though his job-approval ratings in the community are quite low, according to a national opinion survey released yesterday by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, an African American think tank.

In a hypothetical match-up between the presidential candidates, black Americans favored Sen. John F. Kerry to Bush, 69 to 18 percent, the survey said. But the 18 percent for Bush is 10 percentage points higher than the president's vote total in exit polling among this population in the 2000 election.

Eddie N. Williams, the center's president, said black Americans "are holding conservative positions on some wedge issues like same-sex marriage and civil unions." About half the survey's black respondents opposed marriage and civil unions for gays, compared with 39 percent of nonblack respondents.

Bush supports a constitutional amendment that recognizes marriage as a union only between a man and a woman. Kerry said he believes marriage is a union between a man and woman but does not support amending the Constitution.
In the survey, Bush received a 22 percent approval rating, while 67 percent rated him unfavorably. Kerry's approval rating was 78 percent, a solid number, the survey said, but well short of the 86 percent Al Gore received when he ran for president in 2000.

Black Americans have routinely given Democrats about 90 percent of the vote in presidential elections.

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