http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/5413/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/stanley-strikes-again-american-idol-voting-result-gores-loss-2000 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Makes sense to us: &quot;Maybe the reason that more people didn&#039;t turn out for the 2004 presidential race, despite the closeness of the tally four years earlier, is that they were still in denial and distracted by &#039;American Idol.&#039;&quot; </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>Wednesday brought another kooky column from Times TV-beat reporter and critic Alessandra Stanley, "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/arts/television/04watc.html?_r=" target=_self ? 1&adxnnl='1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1175705966-FxcQ/86h+ntVfMsXeHYFIQ"'>Voting </a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/arts/television/04watc.html?_r=" ?</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/stanley-strikes-again-american-idol-voting-result-gores-loss-2000" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch "AlGore "AmericanIdol AlessandraStanley Elections NewYorkTimes NYTimes Television TimesWatch TimesWatch.org Votin Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:32:00 +0000 admin 5505 at http://archive2.mrc.org