"This BBS often hears laments about its left-wing bias, but I am *very* interested to see(even allowing for the limitations of a self-selecting BBS poll) 19 votes for Bush. fully 37% of votes cast--not anywhere so lopsided as minority complaints and posts from the BBS right might suggest."


I was also surprised, having spent the last month reading old posts, and the point is valid even if you have to figure that the folks who voted for Bartlett will likely vote for Kerry if only in desperation--this is very much an "anybody but Bush..." election. It is also part of the rhetoric of the right to suggest that anything that doesn't agree with their world-view is liberal left-wing bias without any acknowledgement of the amount of conservative right wing (increasingly media-driven) bias.