10/27/2004

Reading between the lines: Over at The Corner, Kathryn Jean Lopez is gleeful at the prospect of nasty weather depressing Democratic turnout. She quotes one of their readers:
Considering how unenthused Kerry-ites are for their candidate and how revved up Bush supporters are for theirs, I wonder how much the weather is going to play a factor next week.
And Lopez sees fit to add:
Michael Moore's free Ramen Noodles to register wouldn't be enough to get me out of bed if I were a lazy, hung over college student, that's for sure.
This is coded language, and not very well coded either. The real reason better weather (read: a more representative sample of voters) is better for the Democrats is that our voters are the ones who have the most trouble getting to polls. Because they make less money and live in poorer neighborhoods, they're likely to have fewer voting machines, longer lines, less access to transportation, and more difficulty getting time out of work, childcare, and such to go vote. But even the National Review knows it's impolitic to actually root for monsoon weather to keep poor Black voters from the polls. So they take potshots at college students as proxies.

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