The Reverend Curtis W. Harris, a founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a former Civil Rights marcher with the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., has endorsed Jim Webb for Senate!
Reverend Harris is a member of the City Council of Hopewell, and was first elected in 1986. In 1994 he was elected Vice Mayor, and in 1998 he made history by being elected the first African American Mayor of Hopewell.
Reverend Harris is also the pastor of Union Baptist Church. He and his wife Ruth have six children, many grandchildren, and several great-grandchildren.
It is incredibly exciting to have a respected civil rights leader like Reverend Harris supporting Jim Webb!
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 1, 2006
Black Voters Leave The GOP Tent
More Also Unhappy With Iraq & Bush; Plus: Warming On The Economy
By Gwen Glazer, Erin McPike and Jane Roh,
NationalJournal.com
© National Journal Group Inc.Charges of racism have muddied several intense races this cycle, from Tennessee's Senate contest between Bob Corker (R) and Harold Ford Jr. (D), to Democrat James Webb's bid to unseat GOP Sen. George Allen in Virginia. Most allegations have been leveled at the so-called party of Lincoln, which is bleeding black voters fast, according to a new survey.
The inroads President Bush made in 2004 when he won 11 percent of the black vote -- a 4-point increase from 2000 -- appear to have been washed away. The 900 black Americans polled by Associated Press/Ipsos Public Affairs/AOL are more likely than the general population to oppose the Iraq war and to be angry at the president.
A whopping 86 percent of respondents say Bush is derelict in his duties. Most recent polls, including one AP/Ipsos/AOL conducted last week on a more representative sample of the population, show that three-fifths of Americans disapprove of the president. And while blacks are more likely to disapprove of Congress -- 79 percent said they do -- nearly 60 percent denied Bush would factor into their midterm choices, indicating broader dissatisfaction with the GOP-led legislature.
More than 80 percent said they were choosing a Democratic representative next Tuesday, compared with one in 10 who said they were going Republican. ***
And though 82 percent of the black respondents said the Iraq war was a mistake -- fewer than 60 percent of last week's mostly white respondents agreed -- it's not No. 1 on their list of most important issues. Health care (49 percent) and Social Security (42 percent) topped their list, followed by another bread-and-butter issue for Democrats, the economy (39 percent). Iraq and terrorism were tied at 41 percent, and respondents said Democrats could handle both issues better, hands-down. Pollsters tracked 77/10 and 67/17 splits on those questions, respectively.***