Is bush's win of the popular vote due to those evangelicals

[Minimus]

that rove et al. kept talking about?

I kept hearing about the 4 million evanangelical voters that did not vote in 2000. bush had to secure them with the wedge issues, abortion and gay marriage.

Rapture anyone?:crazy:

[veteran_for_peace]

1. Yes

They made the difference

[demodan]

9. RE: Is bush's win of the popular vote due to those evangelicals

"Yes"
Posted by flood999
They made the difference

Anecdotal evidence to that fact:

Just got off the phone with a friend who goes to the local Catholic Church in my precinct and she told me they had 50 plus new Catholic voters registered this election and they are sure all voted for BUSH because of the abortion issue.(They all went to the polls together and prayed afterward)

This is significant for our precinct because there was about 500+ people total who voted.

[lancdem]

14. I don't know what you can do about this

[TwilightZone]

2. Yes. In exit polls, 22% of those polled claimed that "moral values"

were a big issue.

Yeah, moral values - like killing 1100+ of our soldiers in an unnecessary way along with tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians.

[theHandpuppet]

5. Oh, but you just don't understand...

"Moral values" only pertain to matters of sex and reproduction. Lying, stealing, killings thousands of innocent people, raping the land et al don't count.

[TwilightZone]

12. No, actually I understand quite well.

"Moral values" is code for "I'm anti-gay and anti-choice". It's an excuse to be bigoted and ignorant.

Argh.

[ibegurpard]

11. Exit polls also apparently predicted a far different outcome.

eom

[TwilightZone]

13. The exit polls may have been more accurate than we've been led to believe.

n/t

[4dsc]

3. Yes the rapture is near for them

And this world will be better off with them gone!!

[Uzybone]

4. Yep. We won by 500K last time

now the Bush margin is 3.5 million. thats 4 million for Bush. Im sick of this shit.

[tngledwebb]

6. Not at all.

This is a CON. America held hostage by BushCo, Diebold, and Corporate Media, Part II.

[Gato Moteado]

7. it was due to dieboldt.

guaranteed.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. I still say the uncounted spiritual left outvotes the rigid religious

right.

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[Pacifist Patriot]

10. There are a multitude of issues, but the evangelical vote

definitely can't be ignored. I'm seeing horsemen on the horizon.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

15. Simple Diebold Fraud on a massive scale

See SocalDem's threads and statistical analysis.

[Patiod]

16. Evangelicals and Catholics.

The Church was very strong for Bush this time around. Not everyone bought it, but it didn't hurt Bush's numbers in the weeks leading up to the election to have in almost every Catholic Church in America regular sermons about the importance of voting "pro-life" (in the way the conservative church hierarchy defines it pro-life = antiabortion, but not anti-war or anti-deathpenalty)

[meow2u3]

17. My parish stressed a consistent life ethic

Fortunately, I go to a progressive, or should I say, a neoprogressive parish. My priest's idea of voting pro-life is including all life--born and unborn!

It's the conservative parishes and dioceses who politic from the pulpit, only they get around it by not explicitly mentioning names and political parties. But we know they're shoving the theofascist agenda down our throats; sadly, too many Catholics buy it.

[Union Thug]

18. This is why I HATE religion.