The Right's Parallel Universe
One of the weirdest phenomena of this election day is the drumbeat of reports on conservative web-sites (Drudge, National Review Online) and Fox News about how Democrats are intimidating Republican voters. There was a breathless anecdote on NRO a while ago about some Pennslyvania GOPer being forced to--gasp!--cast a provisional ballot.
Now I don't know if these folks are just continuing the pre-election GOP so's-your-old-man effort to establish moral equivalency for their own strong arm tactics, or it's just all they can think of to write or talk about.
The latest conservative media security blanket is the claim that pro-Kerry early exit poll results are meaningless because the sample is skewed heavily towards women. I'd bet you a ride to the polls that many of the people promoting this interpretation were warbling just a few days ago about how Bush's appeal to "security moms" has wiped out the gender gap.
I guess you reach for the bottle that gives you the belt you need.
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