Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote.

The cause of death was listed as an accidental drowning. In contradiction to King's statement however University of Cambridge historian David Garrow stated in a Salon profile of Alveda King regarding Martin Luther King: "King was not only not a Republican he was well to the left of the Democratic Party of the 1960s [.

and his wife Naomi Barber King. D. William King Sr.