The Washington Post has a story about the Romney campaign’s noble — noble as old Don Quixote de la Mancha — effort to reach out to black voters. How’s it working out for them? Early returns not strong.

That plan, still in its early ­stages, ran headlong into the harsh political realities on the ground in Philadelphia on Thursday, when Romney was treated to a hostile welcome on his first campaign swing through a poor black neighborhood this year.
A few dozen protesters met him with chants of “Get out, Romney, get out!”
Madaline G. Dunn, 78, who said she has lived there for 50 years, said she is “personally offended” that Romney would visit her neighborhood.
“It’s not appreciated here,” she said. “It is absolutely denigrating for him to come in here and speak his garbage.”

And Philadelphia’s elected Democrats got in on the act, too:

Mayor Michael Nutter quipped that Romney had “suddenly somehow found west Philadelphia.”
“It’s nice that he decided this late in his [campaign] to see what a city like Philadelphia is about,” Nutter said. “I don’t know that a one-day experience in the heart of west Philadelphia is enough to get you ready to run the United States of America.”
Philadelphia’s district attorney, Seth Williams, piled on.
“Instead of just talking at the school and getting back on his huge bus, he should come out, he should walk 60th Street, he should talk to folks who are out here that are mad so maybe he could understand how real Americans, those that live here in urban America, the issues that are important to us,” Williams said.