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This could also be entitled 85-15, which is roughly the proportion of the Manhattan vote that when to Kerry vs. Bush (Bush actually got 16.7 per cent, or roughly one vote in six). But more on that later. On to the article … triking a characteristic New York pose near Lincoln Center yesterday, Beverly Camhe [...]
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An NYT piece on entertainment liberals on the coasts and how the people in the “flyover states” voted. isappointment was thick and palpable, an ill-tempered fog at the United Talent Agency in Beverly Hills where – who could concentrate? – the business of Hollywood was interrupted by constant discussions of What Went Wrong. The assistant [...]
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Gary Langer, director of polling for ABC News, adds his voice to the whole values-vote debate in an NYT op-ed piece. poorly devised exit poll question and a dose of spin are threatening to undermine our understanding of the 2004 presidential election. The news media has made much of the finding that a fifth of [...]
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David Brooks of the NYT took a look at the exit-polling numbers and came up with some different conclusions that your typical pundit. But there’s some big holes in his argument too: For example, he doesn’t account for the ignorance and gullibility of Bush supporters.
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