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Sunday, November 14, 2004

Was it really moral values?

James Q. Wilson doesn't think so.  In the Sunday (11/14) edition of the OpinionJournal online (reg required), he states:

If the Democrats could not appeal to the moral values of people, that fact must have been lost on the 48% of the voters who supported Sen. Kerry. It is true that moral values were important to some: based on exit polls, to about one-fifth of all voters. And of these, the overwhelming majority supported President Bush. But almost exactly the same fraction said that jobs and the economy were the most important issues, and of these the overwhelming majority supported Sen. Kerry. And if you add together terrorism and the war in Iraq, 34% found these to be the most important issues (Mr. Bush carried those worried about terrorism, Sen. Kerry those critical of the Iraq war). Given these facts, why does a Times reporter write that moral values were the "defining issue"? I have read her essay three times and cannot discover an answer.

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Sunday, November 14, 2004 in Political Musings |

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