New York Times Out of Touch With Reality

They claimed that California's Prop. 187 was going to lose because Californians hated it. That Pete Wilson's support of it was responsible for his (imaginary) drop in the polls. Guess what? Californians voted and it won in a landslide. "One week before Californians voted on Proposition 187 in 1994, B. Drummond Ayres Jr. reported in the Times that there had been 'a sharp falloff in support for the proposition.' He said Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans and African-American ministers were coming out strongly against Proposition 187 and that 'this outcry, along with the increasing opposition being voiced by liberals, civil libertarians and assorted national political figures' was having an effect.' " It was. But not the one the Times expected. "Proposition 187 passed in a landslide with a nearly 20-point margin -- a larger margin than Wilson got, incidentally. It was supported by two-thirds of white voters, half of black and Asian voters, and even one-third of Hispanic voters. It passed in every area of California, except San Francisco, a city where intoxicated gay men dressed as nuns performing sex acts on city streets is not considered unusual (I have nothing against gay people, but such a parade in most places would, indeed, be considered unusual). In heavily Latino Los Angeles County, Proposition 187 passed with a 12-point margin." I agree with Ann Coulter when she says that any anger directed at NYT is only because the customer was forced to actually PAY for a copy. (Ann Coulter, 11/28/07)