It would have had a long clog to win the hearts and minds of the largest ethnic group.
Kari get it through your head. Neither APNU nor the AFC won the hearts of minds of the largest ethnic group. The PPP ran an aggressive campaign to scare up the Indian vote, and scare it up they did. Look at the results for regions 2.3, 5 and 6 where the PPP either maintained its share of the votes (2 and 3) are INCREASED its share (5 and 6).
This election was as racially divisive as elections in Guyana have always been and your notion that the "East Indian mind" has changed and will no longer factor race, seems rather silly now.
On May 11, 2015 East Indians, Africans and mixed Guyanese voted racial panic as they always do. Amerindians went with who they thought would be the winner. They were wrong but Granger will now have to woo their vote to ensure victory in 2020, as the African vote is also shrinking, even if not as rapidly as the Indian vote.
The only significant factor in this election was the record voter turn out. Not how it voted. I really don't think that a cross over Indian vote exists outside of Region 4. The PPP share of the votes in its heartland aligned almost exactly with the % of the population in those regions which is Indian.
APNU and AFC cannot exist without each other, unless the AFC can find a way to interest the PPP. If APNU goes down over the next 5 years, so will the AFC. If it does well, then the AFC will get some credit. I trust with the three ministries dedicated to governance issues that APNU and the AFC should get on fine......especially with so many AFC stalwarts (I assume 10 of them) now in the cabinet.