New York City's 1989 Mayoral Race Between Dinkins And Giuliani

The argument is concluded with an example of how even voters lie. We are asked the question “Might white voters lie to pollsters, claiming they will vote for the black candidate in order to appear more color-blind than they actually are?” (82) The authors then continue to describe an instance in which people lied about their prejudices to pollsters in an attempt to appear less bias. “In New York City’s 1989 mayoral race between David Dinkins (a black candidate) and Rudolph Giuliani (who is white), Dinkins won by only a few points. Although Dinkins became the city’s first black mayor, his slender margin of victory came as a surprise, for pre-election polls showed Dinkins winning by nearly 15 points. When the white supremacist David Duke ran