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According to this article by Harper's Magazine contributing editor Greg Palast for TomPaine.com, Democrat John Kerry may well have triumphed in Ohio. Most voters in Ohio thought they were voting for Kerry. At 1:05 a.m. Wednesday morning, CNN's exit poll showed Kerry beating Bush among Ohio women by 53 percent to 47 percent. The exit polls [...]
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From Friday's NYT: Report says problems led to skewed surveying data he new $10 million polling system used by many news organizations to predict the outcome of the presidential race had a number of problems that led to the early erroneous impression that John Kerry was heading for victory, according to a report prepared by [...]
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Columns from conservative author and academic Gary Wills, author Thomas Frank (What's the matter with Kansas? How the Conservatives won the heart of America) and Democrat operative Andrei Cherny. Gary Wills: The day the Enlightenment went out America, the first real democracy in history, was a product of Enlightenment values – critical intelligence, tolerance, respect for evidence, [...]
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It's not what you think. In the course of preparing a humble evening meal, I brought out some meat pierogi from my favourite Polish deli – Czechowski's. The label on the back says: Fully Cooked. Just heat. It then adds: “No conservative.” Is there a hidden meaning in that? :)
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