White candidate pretends to be black to win election

Deuce said:

I'm not sure partisan politics even comes into play that much for a freaking community college board position. I would have looked at that ballot and thought "I don't even know what this position is, much less have a clue who these people are."

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Thats a really good point. In our local elections there are no party affiliations. What was that position again? The college board of regents? And they are dem or GOP candidates?

Kal'Stang said:

1: Its not only conservatives that are doing this. Liberals are doing it to by implication that the voters only went by the things released by Mr. Wilson.

2: To be honest most voters ARE low information voters. And that is true no matter their party affiliation. You can't honestly deny that there are a crap ton of people that vote only along party lines due to preconcieved notions of how the other side is "eeeeviiiil". And before responding to this part of my post please note that I did say "MOST"...not ALL. There are indeed people on both sides that actually do the homework and vote accordingly or still along party lines depending on just how partisan they are.

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Sadly, I think you have a point there. Very, very few people actually attend their party caucuses, for example. Fewer still attend their county conventions, and yet fewer their state conventions - all activities crucial to determining who will represent them.

Then ask people the question, "who is on your city council?" Or, "who is your mayor?" Or, who are your county, or even state representatives and you begin to realize just how uninvolved most people truly are in the political process, how it really boils down to an incredibly shallow set of information from which most people agree to decide who will represent them. Heck, watch Leno's "jaywalking" where he asks people who the Vice President is, or even the President, and you see the magnitude of the problem.