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Lost Leo
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posted November 03, 2004 12:39 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I remember a time when Bush was called "The AntiChrist"

Is it not ironic that his strong Moral Values led him to victory then?

Moral Values Boost President Bush

By CONNIE CASS, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Voters credited President Bush (news - web sites) with protecting the country and trusted him more than Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) to take on the terrorists. That offset their displeasure with the economy and the course of the war in Iraq (news - web sites).

Election Day found the nation divided by all sorts of issues — from the role of government to gay marriage.


Bush had said the race would come down to "who do you trust." And a majority of voters said when it comes to handling terrorism, they trust Bush, Associated Press exit polls found.


Although seven in 10 voters were worried about another major attack on U.S. soil, a majority nonetheless felt the nation was safer than four years ago. That majority strongly favored Bush.


"For my safety, I know he's the one who's going to do the job," retiree Rebecca Lesko said after voting for Bush in Linwood, N.J. "I think (Osama) bin Laden is scared of Bush. That's why we haven't been bombed yet."


Kerry was the choice of the 40 percent who felt less safe.


The poll exploring the electorate's thinking was conducted among 13,047 voters for AP and the television networks by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International.


Moral values — heavily emphasized by the president — edged terrorism and the economy as the top issue.


On the economy, voters were about as likely to say Kerry could be trusted as Bush — with many believing the economy has soured under Bush's leadership.


Voters rated the nation's economy significantly worse than they did four years ago, when 75 percent called it excellent or good. This year, a majority said the economy was poor to not so good.


Kerry carried the group who said the economy was the most important issue as well as those who felt Iraq mattered most.


Chris Coffin of Boston — like about a third of Kerry voters — said his vote was mostly against Bush.


"He didn't get bin Laden and Iraq is a mess," said Coffin, a Boston hotel manager and a political independent. "What has he done?"


A majority said things were going badly for the United States in Iraq, and they heavily favored Kerry. Yet slightly more voters approved of the decision to go to war with Iraq than disapproved.


Bush carried white men, voters with family income over $50,000 and weekly churchgoers. Three-fourths of white voters who described themselves as born-again Christians or evangelicals supported Bush. Those white evangelicals — a crucial voting block for the president — represented about a fifth of all voters. Their top issue was moral values.


Kerry was the overwhelming favorite of black voters and had a big lead among Hispanics, though Bush improved his performance with that key group. Kerry had the lead among women, another core group of Democratic supporters.


Young voters supported Kerry over Bush by about 10 percentage points, but the expected surge in their participation this year was not evident. Just under 10 percent of voters were between age 18 and 24, about the same share of the electorate as in 2000. But four years ago, they were evenly split between Bush and Gore.


Besides in-person interviews Tuesday, the survey included 500 absentee or early voters interviewed by telephone during the past week. The margin of sampling error for the entire sample was plus or minus 1 percentage point

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Lost Leo
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posted November 03, 2004 02:56 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

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Lost Leo
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posted November 03, 2004 03:47 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
GUNS, GOD, GAYS


"The Democrats' positions on guns, God and gays has alienated millions of suburban and rural voters. The party needs to find a way to talk to them again if it is going to win national elections but it won't be easy," said University of Texas political scientist Bruce Buchanan.


Republican political consultant Bill Greener said people in the nation's "heartland," where Republicans racked up one victory over another, often saw urban Democrats on the East and West Coasts as smug and elitist.


"If you project a view that people who express strong religious faith are a threat, people who hold that faith are going to feel a sense of resentment," he said.


In many ways, the Democrats have become a coalition of minorities -- blacks, homosexuals, Jews, the unmarried and the unreligious. Bush's political strategist Karl Rove characterized the typical Democrat as "somebody with a doctorate ... people who imbibed the values of the sixties and seventies and stuck with them."


In the immediate term, the battle for the soul of the Democratic Party is likely to be between those on the left led by former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (news - web sites), who will argue that the party needs to sharpen its differences with Republicans, and those who would like to see the party find a way to appeal again to middle class and rural voters who appear to have written the party off.


"We're sick and tired of losing," said Steve Achelpohl, head of the Nebraska Democratic Party. "There are a lot of angry candidates out here because our candidates were better qualified, and they didn't win."

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jwhop
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posted November 03, 2004 04:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The vote for Bush among those who cited moral values as important in the exit polls was striking...about 80%.

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