“I am mystified. I know only one person who voted for Nixon.”

—  Pauline Kael

Attributed to Kael after the 1972 American Presidential election, which Nixon won easily. This misquote is presumably based on "I live in a rather special world." above, but there is no evidence that Kael was mystified or surprised by that election's outcome.
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