I suspect that PUMA is more a matter of the media's constant focus on what's of minor conflict and basically trivial. Focusing on the small percentage of Clinton voters who didn't (or said they wouldn't) vote for Obama-- most did, and, after all, Hilary campaigned very hard for him-- means they didn't have to focus on important issues that actually had some importance to the voting public. (Fortunately, this election, Americans decided not to be diverted into caring more about the trivial than the important.)
More women than men voted for Obama. Many, many more Clinton voters supported Obama. But today's media really can't help themselves. The exception is always more fun to them than the rule, and that's why so often they give this skewed version of reality, the kind that has people saying, "You know, I don't know anyone like that... I guess I only know boring people who never get written up in the newspaper." :)
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Date: 2009-01-23 07:47 pm (UTC)More women than men voted for Obama. Many, many more Clinton voters supported Obama. But today's media really can't help themselves. The exception is always more fun to them than the rule, and that's why so often they give this skewed version of reality, the kind that has people saying, "You know, I don't know anyone like that... I guess I only know boring people who never get written up in the newspaper." :)