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Originally Posted by hyfe
I sat up all night and watched the last election on TV. The number one reason for voting for bush among the interviews among 'random americans' was 'morals and stuff'. I mean, there are lots of reason I could have understood, and would have had some kind of respect for, but 'morals'?! He tricked you into war, lied his ass off, and afterwards when his bluff was called, you all pretty much agreed it was for the better since Saddam was a bad guy.
This isn't about some dumb****s. This is about the majority of the US.
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Um, no. The 2004 exit poll that you're citing was horribly flawed. Even putting aside the fact that 'moral values' has no meaningful definition, the total number of respondees who listed moral values as their most important issue was 22%. Not a majority of voters, not even a majority of Republican voters, let alone a majority of the US. It was only picked up by the press in that it was the highest single category selected, given how they arbitrarily diced up the various issues (for example, if they'd lumped taxes in with the economy/jobs category, then that would have been the highest category).
Actual poll results
here.
A very brief analysis
here.
All this really indicates is that flawed polls yield flawed results. You can hate Americans for re-electing Bush if you want to, but if you believe it was due to 'moral values' then you're just deluding yourself. But you're not alone--most of the American media made the same mistake.
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