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_Hack_The_Planet_ OP t1_j60fyfe wrote

> No, it's a public policy group who's literally working on increasing voter turnout.

Have you ever tried to write as a group? No, it's a person.

> You keep falsely asserting that this is about a candidate having sour grapes that people didn't vote for her and citing something that had nothing to do with her.

It's called BIAS.

Candidates are limited by campaign finance laws from spending "too much" money on outreach to their potential voters. Therefore, special interest groups exist to spend soft money on voter outreach. They say that they are interested in "voter turnout", but there is only one political party that this "Priorities for Progress" supports.

For example, their founder Liam Kerr has an exclusive history of fundraising for democrats... I also looked up the history of the other "data driven nonprofit" group: Murmuration and found that their employees financially support only left wing PACs.

But this is an open secret. You would have me and others pretend that there is no bias and that this has no political agenda other than to increase voter turnout, regardless of who is running.

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Proof-Variation7005 t1_j60azb8 wrote

>So AI, then? /s

No, it's a public policy group who's literally working on increasing voter turnout. You keep falsely asserting that this is about a candidate having sour grapes that people didn't vote for her and citing something that had nothing to do with her.

BTW, if I wanted to insult you, I wouldn't be pulling punches.

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Proof-Variation7005 t1_j609uel wrote

I think you're maybe focusing a bit too much on the specific example here? Nobody is suggesting that black voters automatically would vote for the black candidate. That assertion is never even hinted at even a teeny little bit once in that article. It's absurd.

It's also absurd to pretend it doesn't play into voter habits. There's more than enough data to show that black voters are more likely to support a black candidate. Finding a way to capitalize on that increase turnout is probably going to help, even if that advantage with voters of the same race is slight.

Campbell in particular is irrelevant. She wasn't a distant 3rd who never had a shot. I think she just barely finished ahead of Janey.

This isn't about 2021. And it sure as shit isn't about fucking bingo spaces. It's about how improving turnout and reach might impact future races where the the difference between 1st place and 4th place was 14,000. In a city with half a million registered voters.

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