National polling numbers don’t mean much

Aaron Sarver

Check out this electoral vote calculator and have some fun with projecting which states Kerry will take from the red column when he takes out Bush in November. Besides Florida and Ohio, two big states that would do the trick, Nevada and North Carolina might slip into Kerry's column. Hard to imagine Bush taking too many blue states at this point. State polling is much more important than national numbers. Remember Gore took half a million more votes than GW nationally.

Aaron Sarver is an independent audio producer and writer based in Chicago. His work has appeared in In These Times, The Chicago Reader, Alter​net​.org, and on Free Speech Radio News. For nearly three years he produced and co-hosted the radio program, Fire on the Prairie, which featured interviews with progressive writers and activists, and is archived at fire​on​thep​rairie​.com.
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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