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Did Sydney blogger, Tim Blair have a hand in delivering Ohio to George Bush ? After all, it was he who suggested, albeit with a throwaway line, that British newspaper The Guardian organise its readers to spam voters in one of the battleground states, with a view to changing their votes to John Kerry. An exercise which has now famously backfired as a result of the Guardian's hairbrain email campaign.
The results in Clark County? Al Gore won the county by 1% in 2000. John Kerry lost the county by 2%, just shy of 2,000 votes, this time.
Tim's post and comment box would seem to confirm this. Doh !
A classmate of mine at BCLaw has family in Ohio who received one of those letters, and to say they were incensed would be something of an understatement...
Wouldn't surprise me if that tipped the scales. An indignant lot, we Americans.
Posted by: Derek | November 10, 2004 at 02:14 PM