In the article “Election Day Surprises in the
Schizophrenic West,” HCN has done something that
none of the national news sources has done (HCN, 11/22/04: Election
Day Surprises in the Schizophrenic West). You have gone beyond the
red/blue label for states and given an excellent summary of the
November election results. It is rather sad that the national
networks, newspapers, and news magazines still think that political
boundaries denote some sort of unified political consensus. I guess
that is easier (lazier) to use the brush of simplification.
Thank you for a breath of reality.
onald G. Husek
Ritzville, Washington
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Seeing through red vs. blue.
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