Mr. Cao Goes to Washington: Partisan and Racial Differences
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Mr. Cao Goes to Washington: Partisan and Racial Differences
A former seminarian and an idealistic attorney from the small but well-respected Vietnamese-American neighborhood in New Orleans, Anh “Joseph” Cao enters the political arena hoping to affect greater good. Having never won an election, Cao scores a stunning upset by unseating a nine-term incumbent mired in a bribery scandal to capture a Congressional seat in just his second run for public office.