White Candidate in Texas Unseats Incumbent By Implying He's Black in Campaign Material

Low-info voters

If you're a conservative white Republican running for public office in an overwhelmingly African-American area, you'll almost certainly face an uphill climb to victory.

The road might be a bit easier, however, if your campaign advertisements strongly imply that you're black.

h/t Dave Kreuger

Comments

[Seamus]

This article is RACIST because it implies that African Americans mindlessly vote for candidates simply on account of the color of their skin.

[SIV]

Campaigning in Blackface sounds like a hate crime.

[OneOut]

At least one of the radio stations in Houston are playing one of his radio ads laughing about this race. It has two ladies with black accents claiming that the black incumbent is throwing money away overseas that could be used locally for scholarships.

Too funny. http://www.davewilsonforhcc.com/index.html

[Scarecrow Repair]

If the black candidate couldn’t publicize that his opponent was white, or capitalize on that, it says more about his incompetency and unpopularity than anything else.