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Re: Clark County, Ohio
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 5 Nov 2004 16:10:00 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> 'Ian Katz, the Guardian executive who came up with the idea, said it was
> "self-aggrandizing" and "silly" to think the project affected the outcome. "But
> we did get a lot of people talking — in some cases, shouting," he said. Katz
> wrote in a recent column: "I think I have an idea of how Frankenstein felt.
> Somewhere along the line, the good-humored spirit of the enterprise got lost in
> translation.'
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> That's not how you billed it at the time of the announcement, Ian! You were all
> serious and sober and sure that this might make a real difference, not glossing
> it over and treating it as a lark. Way to backpedal... VERY courageous.
So....I should cancel those bumper stickers that say "Don't blame me, it's
Ohio's fault", and change them to "Don't blame me, it's the Guardian's fault"?
:-)
-->Bruce<--
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| (...) Well if you're looking for plausible deniability so it's not YOUR fault, it's always better to pick the victim whose alibi is harder to check. :-) The Guardian is foreign but Ohio is larger. You'll have to do a risk assessment yourself on (...) (20 years ago, 5-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) This apparently came to pass. According to an article in today's USA Today, (URL) County was the only county in Ohio that voted Democratic in 2000 that went Republican in 2004 (certainly other county vote totals shifted in the GOP direction, (...) (20 years ago, 5-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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