Reply #2: Here's where he took a "wrong turn"-worked under Rove

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He grew up a Democrat but took a job after college as press secretary for Bill Cobey, a Republican Congressional candidate in North Carolina.

Soon after, he switched parties. "I realized after the fact that I agree more with the Republican Party platform, that it talked about independence, that it talked about individual responsibility, individual rights, it talked about the ability to guarantee opportunities, not outcomes," he said in an interview with Armstrong Williams, another African-American conservative. "That was very much what my family stood for."

...and here:

...Although Mr. Allen had the vaunted title of assistant to the president for domestic policy and worked from a coveted West Wing office, he did not set policy so much as carry out the decisions of Mr. Bush's inner circle, particularly Karl Rove, the deputy chief of staff. Mr. Allen managed some of the domestic policy paper flow between the White House and government agencies.