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2004 US Presidential Election
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November 04, 2004
Misc. | Department of Redundancy Department II

CNN is reporting “Just over half — 51 percent — of 621 American adults surveyed said they were pleased with the outcome of the presidential election”. Well duh, as noted in the next paragraph, “He [Bush] also picked up 51 percent of the popular vote on his way to victory.” What part of, “Bush won with 51%,” do they not understand?

I would file this under the “I can’t believe they acutally voted for Bush and are happy about it” department, but I suspect this is just a bit of journalistic laziness.



Posted by Jason Ramsey at November 4, 2004 06:16 AM | TrackBack
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