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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
Don't be an idiot, we have enough people willing to argue with others in bad faith as it is, we don't need you adding to it. Let's not pretend racial bias doesn't exist in politics when it clearly exists virtually everywhere in society to some degree.
As Inglewood Jack said, literally any of those reasons including race could be reasons why someone might ultimately vote for one candidate over another.
It isn't fair to say racial demographics had nothing to do with it in the same way it wouldn't be fair to say it was entirely responsible for the outcome. Neither of which you said, by the way, just so that's clear. Could it have made up a 52 vote difference? Why not, I'm sure people have all sorts of things they might use as a tie-breaker.
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Oh, please. The OP I responded to mentioned absolutely nothing about any other reasons. The post, and I quote, was:
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I hate to say it but at least for Beddington it’s an older, Asian community.
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Please, tell me how that should be interpreted other than saying that the specific ethnic (or perhaps age??) demographic matches, and therefore that's the reason for the vote in Chu's favour.
And yes, racial biases do exist. Of course. There's a big difference between acknowledging the bias and claiming, absent any evidence, that the bias was a deciding factor in any electoral process.