% of US voters citing "values" is DOWN from 2000 and 1996; buh bye mandate

LynnTheDem

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Tue Nov-30-04 01:34 AM
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% of US voters citing "values" is DOWN from 2000 and 1996; buh bye mandate

The man date that never was:

Ever since 22 percent of the country's voters said on Nov. 2 that they cared most about "moral values,"opportunistic ayatollahs on the right have been working overtime to inflate this nonmandate into a landslide by ginning up cultural controversies that might induce censorship by a compliant F.C.C. and, failing that, self-censorship by TV networks. Seizing on a single overhyped poll result, they exaggerate their clout, hoping to grab power over the culture.

It took a British publication, The Economist, to point out that the percentage of American voters citing moral and ethical values as their prime concern is actually down from 2000 (35 percent) and 1996 (40 percent).

In 1996, when 40 percent of Americans based their votes on "moral values," they re-elected Bill Clinton.

Now that the number of Americans who base their votes on "moral values" has been cut almost in half, they selected George Bush.

And this gives the Racist Radical Clerics the ability to force their "religion" down everyone's throats?

http://www.atrios.blogspot.com

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Elidor

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Tue Nov-30-04 01:37 AM
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1. Someone clue in the media

They don't realize what idiots they are.

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LynnTheDem

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Tue Nov-30-04 01:40 AM
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2. Funny how the rest of the world's media knows the FACTS

Yet the US State Stenomedia are so totally clueless.

But hey, dontcha thank God we're on the side of the vast world majority who have & use common sense, reality, facts, rationality, and logic. :)

Imagine being as totally stoopid & ignorant as freeping rightwingnuts!

EWWWWWWWWWWWW!

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pacalo

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Tue Nov-30-04 02:23 AM
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3. Although I'm ashamed that our country got the British involved in

this scam of a war in Iraq, their involvement has provided news that is untouchable by the corporate greed so prevalent in our country. It was through British media that the truth came out about this war. I'm grateful to the U.K. for giving us unfiltered news from the beginning.

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Ima

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Tue Nov-30-04 03:00 AM
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4. Oh no...no man date...poor*

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sonicx

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Tue Nov-30-04 03:11 AM
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5. did The Economist do their own poll or are the 96/00 numbers from

exit polls?

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Eloriel

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Tue Nov-30-04 11:05 AM
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6. Well, I went over to Atrios

and read some interesting things, but didn't quite find your quote...maybe if I read down further. There's a way to link directly to what you're pointing to, and that's by clicking on the hotlink that is the time posted at the bottom -- brings up a new page with the full, permanent link for that blog entry.

:kick:

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