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category international | miscellaneous | other press author Monday October 18, 2004 12:15author by Michael Hennigan - Finfacts.com

Feedback to the Guardian's Operation Clark County

Last week the Guardian launched Operation Clark County to help readers have a say in the American election by writing to undecided voters in the crucial state of Ohio. In the first three days, more than 11,000 people requested addresses. Here is some of the reaction to the project that it received from the US

Have you not noticed that Americans don't give two shits what Europeans think of us? Each email someone gets from some arrogant Brit telling us why to NOT vote for George Bush is going to backfire, you stupid, yellow-toothed pansies ...

Related Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1329858,00.html

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Agreed: Text of Letter Sent to Editor of Guardian (unpublished of course)
author by GBpublication date Tue Oct 19, 2004 07:59author address author phone

Dear Sir,

One way to ensure the outcome of the US Presidential election. Have British readers send unsolicited holier-than-thou letters to American voters about Alexis de Tocqueville, Ogden Nash, Tony Martin (2nd Amendment anyone?), "smirking gunslingers", and the same "civil liberties which took brave Americans 200 years to secure" (from Great Britain). But since you're already working hard at it, remember to tell them to also enclose a US tax return for 2003.

YF.... etc.

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