The Guardian, a leftwing British paper, asked its readers the following question about Time's Person of the Year. Power Line has the story.
Time Magazine chose billionaire Tesla boss Elon Musk – but who would be your choice?
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No one from the paper has gone on record but the presumption is that most of their respondents were voting for Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling. She is currently on the left's sh** list for unapologetically writing biological sex is a real thing. The left views this as being transphobic.
The Guardian appears to have violated the old prosecutor's rule, never ask a question when you don't know in advance the answer you will get. I guess they could have tossed the data and reported as winning somebody they actually liked. The fact they didn't suggests they believe their employees would have ratted out that subterfuge.
In Britain, people buy or subscribe to papers the way US cable TV viewers watch cable news, they buy a paper whose politics they like. Why The Guardian's progressive readers would pick Rowling is a mystery to me and probably to the paper's editors.
The Guardian discovered what Rasmussen Reports learned when they polled about how many genders people believe exist. Three quarters of their US respondents, agreeing with Rowling, said just two.
