It's in Frank Chopp's interest to support this right? No one is going to say "Golly! There's a socialist on the ballot, I've been blindly hoping for that all my time!" More likely it'll turn off folks who want to protest him for some reason but are still ascared of the Red Menace.
Ugh, what an ethnocentric asshole. THEM ~BROWN PEOPLE~ NAMES SURE ARE FUNNY AREN'T THEY ANYWAY