At a meeting of the National Urban League in Detroit today, President Bush admitted that the GOP has "a lot of work to do" in order to win African-American votes. The AP story is
here.
What do folks on dKos make of this? It seems to me that this "outreach" has a twofold purpose: first, to make the Democrats a little nervous about their base; second, and more importantly, to appeal to white moderates who don't want to think of themselves as racist.
Do folks think there's any traction here? Or is this an ineffective gesture?