Re:Nate Silver: Does race affect votes?
by space_cowboy on Sunday April 26, 2009 @12:48PM
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So a white racist vote = 'bad decision' but a black racist vote = 'less bad decision'?
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Nah, white racist vote = bad decision in one direction, black racist vote = bad decision in the opposite direction. If – in a two party system – there are about the same on both sides those bad decisions cancel each other out.
Bad decision in the sense that race played a role where it shouldn’t. This works only in two-party systems like in the US.