White people are stupid, part 1

In the January 1 New York Times, Adam Cohen's "Editorial Observer" column reviewed the new book by former Republican Party strategist Allen Raymond, "How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative." Raymond was briefly jailed for jamming phone bank lines of five Democratic Party offices and a volunteer fire department in New Hampshire in 2002, when he was working for Senate candidate John Sununu (the Republican won by less than 20,000 votes). Cohen wrote of of Raymond's scheme to defeat a Democratic Congressional incumbent in New Jersey:

"Mr. Raymond's company- in a plan he says he hatched with the challenger's advisers- called liberal Democrats and urged them to vote for the Green Party candidate. Those same advisers, he says, gave Mr. Raymond another assignment: to call white households asking them to vote for the Democrat, using the voice of, as he puts it, a 'ghetto black guy.' He also called union households, using voices with thick Spanish accents."

I assume he doesn't mean Spanish. Why do this kind of stuff? It works.