2009-11-08T22:56:14Ztag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/thread/post/if-your-name-is-kevin-don-t-move-to-germanytag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/252/8592009-11-08T22:56:14ZJon Daley<p>I was looking at the election results and I noted one race where two people with &quot;regular&quot; sounding names had won, and the the third candidate had a foreign sounding name, and only collected 16% of the vote, and I wondered how informed the votes were, or did they vote based on his last name. This particular race was not in our district, so I know nothing about it, other than our names, but there were some races in our district that I wonder how many people knew anything about the candidates, since the information was hard to come by.</p>