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Friday, November 05, 2004
Golden StateRepublicans rallied churches across the land, and people flooded out to vote against gay marriage, stem-cell research, abortion, and liberals in general as a deluded breed of evil ideologues. This is the conventional wisdom, that the "evangelical vote" -- about 4 million people who stayed home in 2000 because of old stories about George Bush's drunk driving -- swung the election. Pundits everywhere quote an LA Times exit poll from Tuesday showing that Bush voters turned out for "moral/ethical" reasons, more than terrorism, and declare that a culture war is now on in the United States. I'm inclined to agree. But have a look at this note on the poll:
The Los Angeles Times Poll interviewed 5,154 voters who cast ballots in the general election Tuesday as they exited 136 polling places across the nation including 3,333 California voters as they exited 50 polling places across the state.
Most of the voters polled came from California. Not the Bible Belt, people. Something's wrong.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
11:26 PM
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