Thank You Guardian
It is well known that the Guardian’s attempt to sway Clark County, Ohio voters by having readers email them with the “Euro-perspective” on things was — how to put this . . . — a big, honkin’ failure. No, it was worse. It was a big, honkin’ backfire of a flop.
Slate observes:
The most significant stat here 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. The Guardian’s Katz was quoted as saying it would be “self-aggrandizing” to claim Operation Clark County affected the election. Don’t be so modest, Ian.
