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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ros Taylor

'What WERE you thinking?'

Rarely has an article provoked quite so much indignation and anger (as well as some support) as the Clark County campaign published last week by the Guardian newspaper's G2 supplement. If you haven't heard about it yet, the supplement encouraged readers to write to a voter in the swing district of Clark County, Ohio, in an effort to influence their vote.

G2 published a selection of the feedback today. We've also received many emails via the Feedback page. I can't reply to them all individually, but I have read them all, and a summary of the numbers for and against the idea has been forwarded to the readers' editor, Ian Mayes. Unless another development intervenes, he expects to write a column about the response to the campaign in Saturday's Guardian. I'll link to this column when it's published.

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