Letter to the Editor - “It’s Not Us, Stupid!”
From today’s Boston Globe was this gem of a Letter to the Editor:
I am forced to chuckle each time I read yet another letter to the editor stating that those who exercised their right to vote for anyone other than John Kerry are less than intelligent or, as some writers frankly state, stupid.
It seems to me that if these individuals maintain their position of arrogance and pomposity, then they will have a future of utilizing their self-professed genius in writing concession speeches for their candidates.
Seth Rubinson
Andover, MA
November 14th, 2004 at 7:10 pm
Claim: Chart shows relationship between 2004 electoral vote result and voter IQ.
Status: False.
http://snopes.com/politics/ballot/stateiq.asp
Claim: Study finds that persons of lower intelligence are more likely to support President George W. Bush.
Status: False.
http://snopes.com/politics/satire/gop.asp
Claim: Maps show similarity between 2004 U.S. presidential election results and pattern of free vs. slave states in pre-Civil War America.
Status: Multiple — see below.
http://snopes.com/politics/ballot/civilwar.asp
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the northern Whig/REPUBLICAN party (represented by Abraham Lincoln of Illinois)”
[...]
the Southern DEMOCRATIC party (represented by John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky)
[...]“