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On the campaign trail, Republican Presidential candidate John McCain accepted an invitation to address the NAACP Convention despite the fact that his rival Barack Obama "has the vast majority of the African-American vote sewn up," as NBC's Kelly O'Donnell put it. Back in 2004, George Bush received a scant 11% of the black vote, she noted, and McCain's task in 2008 is "much harder." So what was his motive for attending? NBC's O'Donnell offered the honorable explanation that McCain wanted to show respect. CBS' Jeff Greenfield had a more calculating insight. He speculated that both McCain and Obama use speeches to African-American audiences to send messages to white votes: McCain that he does not represent a racially divisive GOP; Obama that he holds fellow blacks to high standards of responsibility.
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