The result, according to one Bush official, was not only to stimulate black turnout against the GOP candidate in 2000 but to forever demonize Bush among most black voters.
Nader drew 10 percent of black voters, dropping Bush to only 9 percent.
Among black voters, Kerry led Bush 81 percent to 12 percent, and among Latinos, the Massachusetts senator led 57 percent to 38 percent.
Now George Bush got more black votes--a higher percentage this time, this last election, than he did when he first ran, but it's--still you can say about 90 percent of the black people do not support him, despite appointments such as Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice and a few others.
Though many Americans, black and white, greeted Mr Bush's address from New Orleans warmly, if he wants to avoid becoming a lame duck in his second term he will need to claw back the conservative support that won him two elections.
George Bush won more of the black vote in 2004 (11%) than in 2000 (9%), but his approval rating collapsed after Hurricane Katrina.
"(Senate Democratic leader) Tom Daschle will not be a natural ally of President Bush, " says Earl Black, a political scientist and presidential scholar at Rice University.
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In Ohio, Mr Bush doubled his share of the black vote in 2004, to 16%.
In the 2000 presidential race candidate Bush got 8 percent of the black vote.
At first glance the Bush administration's relationship with black American voters can be described in pretty simple terms: It is bad.
President Bush received just 11 percent of the black vote when he ran against John Kerry in 2004.
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Mr Kerry was equally caught out when he said that Mr Bush had never met with the Congressional Black Caucus, which he had, twice.
Exit polls from the 2000 election showed that Bush received only 9 percent of the black vote, compared to 90 percent for Democrat Al Gore, and 35 percent of the Latino vote, compared to 62 percent for Gore.
Mr Bush joined the Miami Urban League, a black-led organisation, to finance and run the school in the belief that its emphasis on basic learning and discipline would make it a model for the state.
Once he took office, however, President Bush surrounded himself with a record number of high ranking black officials.
And once President Bush leaves office, history may recall his relationship with black Americans for the fact that he opened doors.
Bush is due to meet Putin on Sunday in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi.
Churches have long played a hidden (and sometimes not so hidden) part in political life, from the black churches' role in the civil-rights era to Evangelical Protestant churches in Mr Bush's re-election.
Mr Bush appointed more members of minorities to his administration than any previous president, including two black secretaries of state in a row.
At Sunday's match, players from both clubs observed a minute's silence and wore black armbands to mark a national day of mourning in Australia for all the victims of the recent bush fires.
Bush is slated to meet Sunday with Putin in the Russian resort city of Sochi on the Black Sea, according to RIA Novosti.
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