said, a replay partly of 2000. when you had george bush who went out as a compassionate conservative and he wasn t really trying to be necessarily compassionate to black voters. he was really trying to tell swing voters, swing white voters, independents, that you know, i m not as bad as you think i am, nor is this party. i think this is a part of a replay in a very closely contested race. and it s worth noting that george w. bush eventually gave up on relations with the naacp saying he had a virtually nonexistent relationship with them. i do wonder if it does change the minds of independent voters who saw that. the best moments were when romney was being self-effacing, even in the beginning when he said he was speaking before the vice president and hoped the naacp didn t think he was playing favorites. it helps, right? because if as martin luther king argued vociferously that african-american people were the bellwether for the moral center and the moral gravity of the nation, then