Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Nora Ephron Says She Doesn't Know Any Bush Supporters

Nora Ephron says something rather interesting:
We live in a blue city in a blue state, so all day on Election Day there's no way to know what's going on. We call friends, we say what do you know, what do you hear. No one ever knows anything, we learned this in 2004 when all of our most politically-connected friends assured us at mid-day that Kerry had won, that Ohio was ours.
But it's 2006, two years have passed, and maybe there's something hopeful out there. There are all these scary new polls in the morning papers, everything is allegedly tightening. Is it true? What does it mean? We have no idea because, as I say, we live in a blue city in a blue state. We know only each other. How could any of us have a clue whether Bush has "energized his base." We don't know a single human being who's part of the Bush base.
Sounds like Nora Ephron hangs out with the American Sociological Association.