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Re:India's First Openly Transgender Mayor in Her Own Words by trextrex on Friday January 09, 2015 @12:28PM (#8863184)
I think you're being a bit cynical, and detracting from the point of the article. Yes in this particular case democracy didn't work so well. But the takeaway is that such a large group of people were not only OK with having a transgender as a mayor. That is good news anywhere.
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Re:India's First Openly Transgender Mayor in Her Own Words by isgood12 on Friday January 09, 2015 @12:43PM (#8863262)
Yeah cynical is perhaps the right word. As an Indian, I won't be shocked if people voted for this candidate just because it would be funny.
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Re:India's First Openly Transgender Mayor in Her Own Words by lotsofmangos on Friday January 09, 2015 @12:54PM (#8863325)
It says in the article she visited every household. That's proper old-school political campaigning. If people voted for her because they thought it would be funny, then they only thought that because she did the legwork.
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