The Playboy Voter: A Special Report, Part I

October, 2006

Part IThe accepted narrative of the 2004 presidential election is that red-state rubes outnumbered blue-state sophisticates. But when The New York Times went looking for clues about America's voting patterns after the election, the paper reported red and blue states had at least one thing in common: Playboy magazine. It was no surprise to us. Playboy represents a silent purple majority unswayed by the news media's reductionist red-state-vs.-blue-state story line. So with midterm elections loomin...