Quote Originally Posted by downtownguy View Post
There may be no sources that are willing to go on the record, but do you really believe there isn't a big chunk of voters that supported Duggan because of his race?
In this instance, it happens to be that the most reasonably competent, fit-to-lead person in the race is white.

If this were a situation where, say, Diane Bukowski was in the field of candidates, you'd probably have more data points suggesting that race wasn't a factor [[unless, of course, she got more than seven votes. Then I'd start raising those questions myself. )