Letters to the Editor
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Salon proves Stupid gets response
To restate my earlier assertion: Edward McClelland has written a dishonest, pretty much fact-free jermaid meant only to drive up readership.
If you look at voter turnout, sans any of the dubious exit polling, it's pretty clear the election wouldn't be so close were voters of all types not supportive of both candidates.
Because it is close (even now) and because polling has proved ever more unrelaible, guys like McClelland can stir the pot through truthiness and speculation.
This will produce a bunch of people sounding off in all sorts of ways which "prove" the thesis, as much as picking a fight with facile phrases proves anything.
Imagine if Salon had devoted this space to asking if it is actually possible to tell who is voting. They could investigate the methodology of the polling data and compare perceptions of certain states and groups vs. reality.
This could be presented with a catchy headline like "What's actually real".
But then Salon couldn't fill space with crap like this.