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McCain says winning over black voters will be tough
By LIBBY QUAID
Associated Press
April 22, 2008

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From Selma, McCain went to the remote Alabama town of Gee's Bend, visiting a quilt-making collective run by generations of black women known for their intricate and bold designs. He bought three of the larger quilts, which carried price tags of up to $2,500.

They greeted him with choruses of ''Do Lord'' and other gospel hymns, holding his hands and hugging him, and they rode with him across the Alabama River to Camden on a ferry that began service in 2006, 44 years after county leaders shut down the ferry to keep black residents from crossing to the county seat to push for civil rights.

McCain left them briefly to climb into the captain's chair and guide the ferry along the river.

''I thank the Lord for McCain coming here,'' said quilter Mary Lee Bendolph. But she symbolized the challenge facing McCain: Bendolph admitted she likes Obama best.

''He come to me just like Martin Luther King,'' Bendolph said, ''not just for one race, but all the races.''

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