Re: Weird

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Hoover wrote:

> in any event, assertion (hesitate to call it conclusion) that vote
> choice was largely 'moral' one based on one question from last
> november exit polls - 22% of respondents indicated that 'moral
> values' was most important issue, 80% of such voters did so bush...
>
> no other issues matched 'moral vualues' in percentage, mix that with
> success of 'anti-gay' amendments in 11 states, voila - conventional
> wisdom: 'morality' determined election out come, exactly what karl
> rove, et al. want people to believe...
>
> problems with assertion include

Yup, I know that. I spend a lot of time reading polls. But there's no
doubt that the Republicans succeeded in turning out their base, and
the religious appeal was an enormous part of that. Protestants
increased their vote for Bush by 3 percentage points over 2000, and
Catholics by 5 (and that was led by churchgoing, theologically
conservative Catholics).

Doug