Cunningham lacks the one thing Old Charlie has.
Old Charlie is black. It’s like a Teflon coating.
What whites view as criminal activity, blacks view as getting back at “the man.”
They will vote for Charlie because he has been successful at it. Instead of condemnation they all laugh because he got away with it. The more whites complain that Charlie got away the more likely blacks are to vote for him.
They show their spite by voting for Charlie, they will do the same for Obama in 2012.