Posted on 11/8/2004, 1:59:49 PM by Pfesser
Remember the brilliant idea by the Guardian, a left-wing British newspaper, to help Sen. John Kerry win Ohio?
In 2000, Democrat Al Gore won Clark County, Ohio, by a slender margin of 324 votes. So, in its Oct. 13 issue, the Guardian announced "Operation Clark County."
"The idea was simple: Give U.K. readers frustrated with the Bush administration a way to help drive him from office," explains Andy Bowers at Slate.com. "The left-wing newspaper targeted one swing county in one swing state and invited readers to send one-on-one letters to independent American voters." More than 11,000 Guardian readers responded, but the foreign letter-writing campaign enraged Clark County residents, who replied with letters of their own denouncing the Brits as "stupid, yellow-toothed pansies." And the director of Clark County's board of elections observed tersely: "The American Revolution was fought for a reason."
When Tuesday's votes were tallied, President Bush won Clark County by 1,620 votes over Mr. Kerry. In fact, Mr. Bush's vote total in the county this year (34,444) was 25 percent higher than his 2000 total of 27,660.
"The most significant stat here," Mr. Bowers notes, "is how Clark County compares to the other 15 Ohio counties won by Gore in 2000. Kerry won every Gore county in Ohio except Clark. He even increased Gore's winning margin in 12 of the 16. Nowhere among the Gore counties did more votes move from the blue to the red column than in Clark."
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
Interesting phenomenon.
I bet Karl Rove has 51% of the shares in the Guardian.
Hee hee. If they do good, even by accident, I guess they deserve thanks.
The Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again.
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