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Originally Posted by djchameleon
Gotcha.
Not necessarily, the whole all it takes to win an election in a black majority is to be black or not white.
In this case specifically, the guy that he was running against was black. So it was "two" black people running for the same position not just a "oh he's black let's vote for him".
The aggression of his marketing campaign and the deception that he went through to make it seem like he was a friendly candidate to vote for is the big issue here. It's actually the main reason he won. I do agree that most voters are slow and just end up voting based off of ad campaigns.
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So you think that if he ran his marketing campaign the same exact way, except substituted the pictures of black folks with pictures of white folks, he would have still won? (in other words, if he led voters to believe he was indeed white)
If you answer no to that question, then you agree that skin color is the primary factor in their votes.
If you answer yes, then you submit that the allusion is a non-issue since no one was swayed on the basis of skin color.