Last week, Polish voters rejected the candidacies of the Prime Minister and 32 other Communist Party leaders to the new Polish Parliament.
The conclusion seemed to be that this was yet more proof of how discerning Polish voters had become since their first heady days of democracy.
He spoke from the pulpit in the city's black churches and lobbied older immigrant groups such as Italian and Polish voters.
Yes, Polish voters did what they have done in every election since freeing themselves from Soviet Communism.
Since then, Polish voters have been tied to the more conservative wing of the Democratic Party, but shifted away from the Democrats over social issues such as abortion.
According to Jerzy Minakowski those small forces had proven themselves inadequate to protect Polish voters in the region from German repressions.
Last year, Polish voters ousted a centrist party and elected a coalition based on the former Communists, and the ex-Communists also won in Lithuania.
Polish voters seemed unenthusiastic about their choices.
Conduct censured this year's winning white candidate for allegedly telling Polish voters that they "want a white mayor."
Polish voters then voted to join the European Union in a vote in June 2003.