Alexander Bolton, The Hill
- Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is making an appeal to black voters this week, but he has taken a different approach than President Bush did during his 2004 reelection campaign.
While Bush highlighted an amendment seeking to ban gay marriage and other social issues to court black voters, McCain is championing education and other populist ideas. Part of McCain’s strategy is to make the case that the Democrats’ tax plan will negatively affect citizens across the economic spectrum.
“There’s a misconception that the Republican Party is the party of the rich,” said a McCain aide working on outreach to African-Americans. “The senator is going to blast through that and serve Americans of all tax brackets.”
