'Rich Whitey' Only Polling At 2%, Somehow

With the exceptions of a "Rich Whitey Lady" now and then and the very occasional "Rich Black Guy" such as Barack Obama, in America the only people who win major elections are Rich Whiteys. So the only real surprise in this story about a guy named RichWhitneysuffering a typo that changed him to RichWhiteyon the electronic ballot is that he's not winning in a landslide. What's his problem, is he notreallyrich and white?

Talking Points Memo has this answer:  

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the name of Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney is misspelled "Rich Whitey" on electronic-voting machines in 23 wards ....

And that's where we stopped reading, because if he was so rich and whitey, he sure as hell wouldn't be theGreen Partycandidate -- that's reserved for the merelycomfortablewhitey, with his graduate degree and 2008 Prius. [ TPM / Sun-Times ]