this has been a hard week for the kickoff of the republican party's outreach to african-americans in north carolina. republican party's presidential candidate may have won north carolina in 2012, but no thanks to the black vote. african-americans in north carolina voted 96% for president obama. that was up from the 95% of black voters who supported him in the previous election. one in five residents of north carolina is african-american. they have not seen much to appeal to them from the republican party. this was a really unfortunate week to pick for republicans to try to change black voters's minds. this was the week the republican governor of the state went to court to defend the new law restricting voting rights in the state. a law called the worst voter