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Originally posted by bilmore
Most interesting aspect: At the beginning of the Swifties' thing, the mainstream media either totally refused to cover it, or, at best, mentioned that a lot of idiots were making dishonorable and baseless charges against Kerry, and that it reflected badly on Bush. Note the Kerry upswing during this period.
Then, when the non-mainstream media had been speaking of it for so long that the general public was getting the sense that "the NYT- et al are maybe pulling something here", and they had to actually cover things a bit more . . . er . . . fairly (in a relative sense, of course - still hasn't truly happened), you see the swing the other way.
I bet the Times et al crew are just pissed. They seem to be losing their monopoly.
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Clearly, you have more confidence than do I in analyzing a chart of electoral votes (comprised of various state polls performed at different times, which adjust in big chunks based on a percentage point or two of variance) and attributing its movement over a couple of weeks to the gradual public awareness of the Swiftvets through non-traditional media, and the victories of non-traditional media over those stuffy liberal elitist media fucks. Well done.
