THE PLANK JANUARY 15, 2008
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John Judis's recent takedown of the idea that Hillary Clinton's victory in New Hampshire can be partially explained by voter racism--propagated, most visibly, by pollster Andrew Kohut in the New York Times--prompted comments from all quarters of the blogosphere including Salon.com, Politico, the Commentary blog and even, in the article's Comments, Andrew Kohut himself. Judis himself responded to Kohut's rebuttal here.
P.S. "The" excised. Five points to J.J.
--Barron YoungSmith
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Can we all just admit that in the internet era in which information moves faster, in greater quantities, and from vastly more sources, our pollsters cannot under _any_ circumstances ever capture with real accuracy how voters actually feel in the hour before they pull the lever?
And that this sea change in the way voters receive and process information, and not residual racism, is surely a far greater factor in explaining the discrepancy between polled and voting results?
Perhaps the reason that the punditariat and the pollsters keep reaching for the racism explanation is their fear that a user-centric media model with unlimited info access means that their own relevance to the process will likely decline further and further.
- teplukhin2you
January 15, 2008 at 2:48pm
"The Politico"? Surely the TNR knows better ...
- J.J. Gould
January 15, 2008 at 3:19pm