This November, Vote Affluent Caucasian

“Rich Whitney is the Green party candidate for governor in Illinois this year. But there’s been a small matter of a typo on the state’s electronic voting machines. On electronic voting machines in 23 wards — about half of which are predominantly African-American districts — Whitney’s name is set to appear as ‘Rich Whitey’.” Whitney is obviously upset about the whole thing, but I would be more concerned if I were the Republican nominee, because my base is pretty primed to vote for “Rich Whitey” most of the time. There’s plenty of cause for confusion there.