MÁS DETALLES que ilustran que el topicazo de que a Bush sólo lo votaron los paletos ignorantes y ultrarreligiosos no tiene sentido: las cifras -aún no oficiales, indican que el apoyo a Bush, nada menos que en Beverly Hills (una de las zonas tradicionalmente más favorables al partido Demócrata) habría subido ¡22 puntos!. Es decir, se habría más que doblado:

2004 UNOFFICIAL

BUSH 42.38% KERRY 56.98% OTHER .64%

2000 OFFICIAL

BUSH 20.47% GORE 76.51% OTHER 3.02%

A pesar de los esfuerzos de los de "There's a motive" (Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon y Tim Robbins, Bruce Springsteen etc). Y es que el resultado de las elecciones de mañana hará una semana responden a una dinámica infinitamente más complicada de lo que da a entender la propaganda post-electoral de los enteraos.

ACTUALIZACIÓN. Dodgson apunta acertadamente en un comentario que la subida del voto a Bush en Beverly Hills no es del 22% como había escrito originalmente, sino de 22 puntos porcentuales; en porcentaje sería más del 100%. Ya he corregido el error, que ha sido producto de un lapsus al escribir demasiado deprisa. Soy de letras, pero no tanto...

ACTUALIZACIÓN II. Más, por Mark Steyn:

MSNBC.com's Eric Alterman was mirroring the Mirror's sentiments: "Slightly more than half of the citizens of this country simply do not care about what those of us in the 'reality-based community' say or believe about anything." Over at Slate, Jane Smiley's analysis was headlined, "The Unteachable Ignorance Of The Red States.'' If you don't want to bother plowing your way through Alterman and Smiley, a placard prominently displayed by a fetching young lad at the post-election anti-Bush rally in San Francisco cut to the chase: "F--- MIDDLE AMERICA."

Almost right, man. It would be more accurate to say that "MIDDLE AMERICA" has "F---ed" you, and it will continue to do so every two years as long as Democrats insist that anyone who disagrees with them is, ipso facto, a simpleton -- or "Neanderthal," as Teresa Heinz Kerry described those unimpressed by her husband's foreign policy. In my time, I've known dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts and other members of Britain's House of Lords and none of them had the contempt for the masses one routinely hears from America's coastal elites. And, in fairness to those ermined aristocrats, they could afford Dem-style contempt: A seat in the House of Lords is for life; a Senate seat in South Dakota isn't.