This article is intriguing, even though I’m not sure I really believe it in total. But he makes a couple of interesting observations:
Most conservatives did show up on Election Day, but a significant number voted Democrat. Mr. Obama picked up one-third more conservative voters than Sen. John Kerry, at 20 percent. Self-identified conservatives in exit polling comprised 34 percent of voters in both 2004 and 2008, yet the number who called themselves Republican dropped from 37 percent to 32 percent. In an evenly split nation, the GOP losing 14 percent of its base overwhelmed almost everything else.
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Two key right-leaning constituencies deserted Republicans: security moms and Catholics. Though the media has made the “gender gap” a household term, the more apt classification was a “marriage gap.” Single women were heavily Democrat, and married women leaned Republican. “Security Moms” became the label for married mothers attracted to the hawkishness of the GOP.
Hmmmm.
Thanks to "Catholics" like Douglas Kmiec
LJ "Beaglescout" Miller Thursday, December 4th at 11:05PM EST (link)Kmiec and others of the “progressive” wing of American Catholicism seem to think that killing an innocent human being who happens to still be growing inside his or her mother is less important than pursuing “social justice” and other crytpo-socialist goals.
For the single women, remember that Obama had the better hair of the two main party candidates and was taller and more attractive all around. Like or not, attraction matters in politics. Plus everyone in People magazine and Us weekly was voting for Obama.
What man would let another man’s words, rather than his deeds, tell him who is at peace and who is at war with him?