Saturday, October 02, 2004
Truth, Honor and the American Way
What drives your political decisions? Is it just about power? Is it about approaches to governemental involvement? Or is it about issues of right and wrong?
If you said the latter, you are part of a growing group of voters who think that morals and values issues like abortion, euthanasia, the role of gay rights and such are some of the most important reasons for voting.
From the Weekly Standard:
New polling by Time and MSNBC/Knight-Ridder suggests that all this has changed. The proportion of voters who say they are keying their vote on "moral values issues like gay marriage and abortion" has gone up sharply--to a level of 15 to 18 percent, according to five national polls commissioned by Time and conducted by Schulman, Ronca, and Bucuvalas since July. More important, the profile of such voters is no longer definable in the vocabulary of polarization and divisiveness. The most recent Time poll (taken September 21-23) has George W. Bush winning socially driven voters by a lopsided 70 to 18 percent. If not for these voters, according to the poll, Bush would be trailing John Kerry by 5 pointsinstead of leading by 4.
If you said the latter, you are part of a growing group of voters who think that morals and values issues like abortion, euthanasia, the role of gay rights and such are some of the most important reasons for voting.
From the Weekly Standard:
New polling by Time and MSNBC/Knight-Ridder suggests that all this has changed. The proportion of voters who say they are keying their vote on "moral values issues like gay marriage and abortion" has gone up sharply--to a level of 15 to 18 percent, according to five national polls commissioned by Time and conducted by Schulman, Ronca, and Bucuvalas since July. More important, the profile of such voters is no longer definable in the vocabulary of polarization and divisiveness. The most recent Time poll (taken September 21-23) has George W. Bush winning socially driven voters by a lopsided 70 to 18 percent. If not for these voters, according to the poll, Bush would be trailing John Kerry by 5 pointsinstead of leading by 4.
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