"VALUES VOTERS": Hugo Schwyzer

[Crunching and commenting on CNN's exit-pollage. --Eve]

...5. Protestants who attended church weekly went for Bush, 70-29. Hey, I'm just happy to be part of that 29%! Hurrah for us; we're a "faithful remnant!"

6. The marriage gap is now bigger than the Gender Gap: married folks of all sexes went 56-43 for Bush; unmarried folks went for Kerry by an even bigger margin, a whopping 59-40.

7. Remarkably, the exit poll showed that 22% of those folks who favored gay marriage still voted for Bush; 30% who opposed all forms of legal recognition for GLBTQ people voted for Kerry. What they were thinking, I don't know.

8. 22% of the electorate selected moral values as the most important issue in this campaign, more than chose the economy (20%), terrorism (19%), or Iraq (15%). Of that 22% who viewed moral issues as of chief importance, they went 79-18 for President Bush. Again, I'm damned proud to be with that 18% who see poverty, the environment, and global social justice as moral issues!

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