# Claims in latest Ann Coulter column **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 4, 2004, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/claims-in-latest-ann-coulter-column/272966 "2004-11-04T14:00:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/claims-in-latest-ann-coulter-column/272966/21 "2004-11-08T22:24:52Z")
Coulter and others are bragging about the fact that GWB got more votes than any previous candidate. The increased voter turnout caused another record-breaker; John Kerry got more votes than any previous losing candidate. Both sides did amazing feats of voter registration and voter turnout. ---
**Author:** ![DRBOB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@DRBOB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRBOB)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/claims-in-latest-ann-coulter-column/272966/22 "2004-11-08T22:49:51Z")
> [@Rune](#): > > Why is Ann Coulter so derisive towards Karl “Boy Genius” Rove? I should have thought Coulter and Rove would be best of buddies. She explains this at [www.anncoulter.org](http://www.anncoulter.org) ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/claims-in-latest-ann-coulter-column/272966/23 "2004-11-08T23:18:48Z")
> [@Rune](#): > > Why is Ann Coulter so derisive towards Karl “Boy Genius” Rove? I should have thought Coulter and Rove would be best of buddies. Ms. Coulter blames Rove for deciding that Bush would “keep mum” on the issues of gay marriage and partial-birth abortion. In fact, Bush was quite clear on those issues. The GOP campaign to the evangelical Christian folks got a lot of mileage out of them. Fact-checking is something Coulter is too busy to do. ---
**Author:** ![Roches](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc8723/32.png) [@Roches](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roches)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/claims-in-latest-ann-coulter-column/272966/24 "2004-11-08T23:34:52Z")
The statistics on same-sex marriage are highly misleading because they don’t take civil unions, which are much the same thing with a different name, into account, as has already been discussed. The same goes for the partial-birth abortion statistics; they are not accurate measures of how many Americans are pro-life versus pro-choice, but only of their opinion on one specific aspect of the abortion debate. A [majority](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60579-2004Jul18.html) of Americans support renewing the assault weapons ban; this does not mean that a majority of Americans support a total ban on firearms. Thus, both these statements are misleading. The claim that ‘Democrats’ initiated a crack-for-registration scheme is also misleading. I strongly doubt that upper-level Democratic advisors were financially connected to this scheme, as was the case with the Swift Boat campaign. One could argue that ‘some Democrats’ are murderers, or that a few support voter fraud. It is highly misleading to make such statements without balancing the claims with examples from the other side. (It is also vaguely possible that the most extreme forms of fraud, perhaps on both sides, are perpetrated by supporters of the other party.) ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/claims-in-latest-ann-coulter-column/272966/25 "2004-11-08T23:43:46Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > John Kerry got more votes than any previous losing candidate. Both sides did amazing feats of voter registration and voter turnout. In fact, John Kerry got more votes than any previous candidate, period. He is second all-time in most votes received by a Presidential candidate. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/claims-in-latest-ann-coulter-column/272966/26 "2004-11-09T00:24:50Z")
Remind your friends that John Kerry got more votes than Ronald Reagan – that’ll show 'em. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/claims-in-latest-ann-coulter-column/272966.md?page=1)