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Self-Flattery Blues

Jesse Walker | 5.10.2004 10:28 AM

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A phony chart has been circulating in the left wing of the blogosphere, claiming to show that states that voted for Gore have higher average IQs than states that voted for Bush. No word yet on whether there's a chart that shows which voters think they're smarter.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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