This could also be entitled 85-15, which is roughly the proportion of the Manhattan vote that when to Kerry vs. Bush (Bush actually got 16.7 per cent, or roughly one vote in six).

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An NYT piece on the apparent disconnect between entertainment liberals on the coasts and how the people in the "flyover states" voted.

Gary Langer, director of polling for ABC News, adds his voice to the whole values-vote debate in an NYT op-ed piece.

David Brooks of the NYT took a look at the exit-polling numbers and came up with some different conclusions that your typical pundit. But there's some big holes in his argument too: for example, he doesn't account for the ignorance and gullibility of Bush supporters.