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CBS News Kerry Courts Black Voters October 11, 2004?09:26:47: "CBS/AP) With just three Sundays left before Election Day, Sen. John Kerry is asking for all the help he can get from black voters and the Almighty.

The Democratic presidential nominee attended two church services Sunday, instead of his usual one, worshipping first with Haitian Catholics and then with black Baptists, where the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton tied his election to the civil rights struggle.

'We have an unfinished march in this nation,' Kerry said at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, as many congregants waved fans handed out by the campaign with his slogan, 'Hope is on the way.'

'Never again will a million African Americans be denied the right to exercise their vote in the United States of America,' Kerry promised, referring to the disputed Florida recount in the 2000 presidential race. As he often does before black audiences, Kerry said he has a legal team that will aggressively respond to any allegations of disenfranchisement. "