From Howie Kurtz's on-line column today:
The Weekly Standard's Terry Eastland looks at the electoral math:In 2000, Al Gore lost every one of the 11 states that formed the Old Confederacy ... And yet he narrowly lost to Bush in the Electoral College, 274 to 264 votes.
From The Weekly Standard column Howie is talking about:
Al Gore lost every one of the 11 states that formed the Old Confederacy. Indeed, he lost the entire "Greater South"--those 11 plus culturally kindred Kentucky, Oklahoma, and West Virginia. And yet he narrowly lost to Bush in the Electoral College, 271 to 266...
The second one is right (hard right, actually). I don't see any note about a correction. So whose typo is this?
At least he's not plagiarizing, right?
Maybe he's using the new electoral votes, updated because of the census? Which could be relevant, if he's talking about electoral strategy for '04, but it's pretty clear from context that that's not what he's doing.
Anyway, it should have been 271-267, but as I recall one of Gore's electors abstained in protest.
"who's typo"?
"who's typo"?
My typo, in this case.
I is typo!
What I'm curious about is the meaning of this litte article - it seems to be a sign of deep unease on the right.
Because nobody puts anything in the Weakly Standard without a purpose. It's likely an attempt to talk the Republican Party into moving back towards the middle - "The Dems can win without the South, so you better stop acting like the Old Confederacy."
But that doesn't square with the last few years of triumphalism, where their way was supposedly America's way and therefore would continue to inevitably take hold everywhere except maybe on those evil coasts.
I'm wondering if their audience is the DEMS- telling them to ignore the South. Because if Kerry's campaign, even in losing those 11 states, finally fires up some suspicions among Southerners that they have been sold a real bill of goods with the Republican Party, then that's bad, bad news for the elephants.
C'mon. There's no "I" in typo.
No, I am typo!
Anyone who thinks West Virginia is "culturally kindred" to the Old South, KY and OK knows nothing of WV's cultural, or the Old South, and has learned nothing from the last election. Kerry, on the other hand, was here the other night, invoking the other JFK and WV's significance in that election
Is this an attempt to demonstrate the new electoral division ???
That might explain a discrepancy
The same Statewide result as 2000 would yield a new outcome, ya know
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Taxes - 17 March
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I don't know, but I think Howie just created his very own congressional district, Howie-AL, lost somewhere out in the Indian Ocean.