What an Awful Way to Do Politics ; the Subject That Used to Be the Most Avoided Is Now Most Fought About

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So now comes the political backlash against the evangelicals and all that, right?

The Republicans have won a narrow presidential election. Many observers have attributed their victory to the fifth of the population that is white and evangelical or born again. That fifth votes generally Republican. An overlapping fifth told Election Day pollsters that they are concerned mainly with "moral values." They, too, voted overwhelmingly Republican.

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What an Awful Way to Do Politics ; the Subject That Used to Be the Most Avoided Is Now Most Fought About

An argument can be made that such people weren't actually decisive in the election, that they are only the Republican base, and that President George W. Bush needed people who were up for gr...

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