Fahrenheit 9/11 sweeping voters

Tracy Van Slyke

This email came on from MoveOn PAC today. After seeing the movie I wondered how many people from middle America would take the chance and see this movie. I guess the numbers below are starting to answer this question. From MoveOn PAC_According to a new poll released today, viewership of Fahrenheit 9/11 continues to grow with 11% of all voters now reporting they have seen Michael Moore???s film. This is nearly double the number of viewers since the July 4th weekend, when 6% reported having seen the movie. An additional 33% intend to see Fahrenheit 9/11, which means that 44% of all voters in the 2004 Presidential election could be exposed to the film. Movie-goers and intended movie-goers represent a broad and diverse slice of the electorate and spread across the country, including the so-called battleground states.?? Fully 1/3 of voters who have seen or intend to see the film self-identify as Bush voters. Forty percent of movie viewers and potential movie viewers reside in battleground states, 25% in the ???red??? states and 33% in the ???blue.??? The poll, conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, captured data from 1000 likely voters fielded between July 10 ??? July 13, with a margin of error of +/- 3 points.??

Tracy Van Slyke, a former publisher of In These Times, is the project director for The Media Consortium.
The text is from the poem “QUADRENNIAL” by Golden, reprinted with permission. It was first published in the Poetry Project. Inside front cover photo by Golden.
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