" On Martin Luther King’s Birthday, Newt Gingrich spoke to black voters about growing up in segregated Georgia.
Gov. Rick Perry of Texas said he had appointed a “descendant of slaves” as the Texas Supreme Court’s first black justice. And Mitt Romney said “we must never rest” until Americans are judged for their merits, not their race.
The Republican presidential candidates spent the holiday on Monday reaching out to wary black Americans. In the struggle for every last vote, some candidates were hoping to appeal to a small number of black voters in the South Carolina primary on Saturday — even if those voters end up supporting President Obama in the fall.
The King holiday gave the all-white Republican field an opportunity to speak about race — and their work on civil rights — as the candidates try to unseat the nation’s first black president. But it is a challenge to reach black voters in South Carolina, where they made up only 2 percent of Republican primary voters in 2008.
“It would be nice if I thought black voters would give the Republicans more due as the party of Lincoln,” said Chip Felkel, a Republican consultant in Greenville, who is unaffiliated with any campaign. “There may be marginal improvement, but not much.”
That has not stopped some candidates from challenging the conventional wisdom that Republicans and black voters go together like oil and water. Republican strategists say that without Mr. Obama in this primary, they hope at least to improve on the participation in the 2008 primary. South Carolina does not register voters by party and allows any resident to vote in either primary."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/us/politics/republicans-campaign-on-martin-luther-kings-birthday.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha24
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