Billy Graham called to give me the names of all his Christian youth types. He's very enthusiastic and thinks we have a very good group to work with us. He also feels we have a good chance on the blacks by splitting them and getting the religious blacks who are scared of the criminal elements [sic] and so on to come over to our side. He thinks we're in good shape with the Jews.
It's not quite the same as today; there's nothing about abortion and gays scaring all the blacks to vote for Nixon (at least not from what Haldeman says about what Graham said). But it's awful close!
And as long as I raised it I might as well let you know it worked about as well as usual, too. Nixon wound up with, according to one study, about a third of the Jewish vote -- more than he got in 1968, but just about normal for 1972-1984. As for African Americans...Gallup has "nonwhite" as a category, which is quite a bit more Republican than just the black vote (compare later years when both are available), and McGovern won that by a whopping 87-13 spread; ignoring survey error, Nixon only did one point better than in 1968, and two points worse than the combined Nixon plus Wallace total.
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