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Proof-Variation7005 t1_j615uyc wrote

Reply to comment by treeboi in Boston has never elected a Black mayor. A quiet experiment could change that. by _Hack_The_Planet_

>It was all about Andrea Campbell failing to get enough black voters to win mayor of Boston.

No, it really wasn't. She was the hook used to set up a much larger point. Her failed mayoral campaign was setup.

Campbell was never better than a distant 3rd longshot mayor candidate in terms of profile and prospects. You can't fuck up an election you had virtually no chance of winning.

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treeboi t1_j69d9ft wrote

Andrea Campbell faced off against Michelle Wu, literally the worst matchup.

Wu worked for Warren's 2012 senate race, heading up Warren's outreach group to get votes from the black, LGBT & women communities, particularly in Boston.

Thus, Wu had a strong black outreach a full 3 years before Campbell even ran for city council.

If you wonder why the Boston black community voted overwhelmingly for Wu over Campbell & Janey, it's because Wu has done a lot more outreach with the black community than either Campbell or Janey, for a longer period of time, as Wu started her black outreach campaigning a full 3 years before Campbell ran for city council, a full 5 years before Janey ran for city council & Wu started her outreach under Warren's hugely funded first senate race.

So when Wu ran for mayor, she already had 9 years of black outreach, a larger ground team & had the support of Senator Warren's team too.

You're complaining that there was a mere 14,761 vote difference between Wu & Campbell, but fail to state that Wu had 36,060 votes vs Campbell's 21,299 votes, meaning that Wu had a 69% lead over Campbell. Campbell needed to almost double her votes in order to match Wu. A 14,761 vote lead wasn't a small lead - in the Boston mayor race, it was an enormous lead.

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