The Guardian Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Clark County==== In August 2004, for the [[2004 United States presidential election|US presidential election]], the daily ''G2'' supplement launched an experimental letter-writing campaign in [[Clark County, Ohio]], an average-sized county in a [[swing state]]. Editor [[Ian Katz]] bought a voter list from the county for $25 and asked readers to write to people listed as undecided in the election, giving them an impression of the international view and the importance of voting against President George W. Bush.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=skbsPn2huuUC&pg=PA170|title=Clark County|publisher=epubli|language=en|access-date=23 August 2020|archive-date=21 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201121073110/https://books.google.com/books?id=skbsPn2huuUC&pg=PA170|url-status=live}}</ref>{{Circular reference|date=November 2020}} Katz admitted later that he did not believe Democrats who warned that the campaign would benefit Bush and not opponent [[John Kerry]].<ref name="rennie20041022">{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1474828/Guardian-calls-it-quits-in-Clark-County-fiasco.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1474828/Guardian-calls-it-quits-in-Clark-County-fiasco.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Guardian calls it quits in Clark County fiasco |last=Rennie |first=David |date=21 October 2004 |work=The Telegraph |access-date=29 July 2019 |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The newspaper scrapped "Operation Clark County" on 21 October 2004 after first publishing a column of responses—nearly all of them outraged—to the campaign under the headline "Dear Limey assholes".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/oct/18/uselections2004.usa2|title=Dear Limey assholes|access-date=13 May 2008|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=18 October 2004|archive-date=28 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130828090159/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/oct/18/uselections2004.usa2|url-status=live}}</ref> Some commentators suggested that the public's dislike of the campaign contributed to Bush's victory in Clark County.<ref name="bowers">{{cite web |last=Bowers |first=Andy |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2004/11/dear_limey_assholes_.html |title=A crazy British plot to help Kerry |publisher=Slate |date=4 November 2004 |access-date=6 March 2016 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304065354/http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2004/11/dear_limey_assholes_.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page