Voter attitudes

[andrewducker]

Take a look at this BBC piece on voter attitudes.

Notice how Kerry voters care about the economy, but not about "moral values".  Notice how the Bush voters feel exactly the opposite.

Notice how church attenders voted Bush, but atheists voted Kerry.

How Country voted Bush, but City voted Kerry

Democrats also ran strongly among unmarried and young people, families with incomes under $30,000 a year, and among the highly educated.

The only way to solve this is to make people divorce, get younger and get poorer.

Or....educate them.

Comments

[derumi.livejournal.com]

Democrats need to quit using condoms and aborting unwanted pregnancies, then they'll have more voters.

It would help if the Democrats didn't have some of their platforms co-opted by the Republicans, who may have also picked up Democrats that felt disenfranchised (such as minorities who are religious).

[dalglir.livejournal.com]

Give 'em four more years...

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

It's utterly unverified, but this chart makes the point in an entertaining way. :)

[derumi.livejournal.com]

Ah-ha. I knew Oregon had to be the dumbest of the Kerry-supporting states. No wonder the anti-gay measure passed with flying colours.

[adders.livejournal.com]

Or possibly for atheist Democrats to stop driving Christian Democrats into the arms of the enemy?

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

How did they do that?

[andrewducker]

Are they? Kerry is a Christian, and as far as I can tell, so are many, if not most, Democrats.

[derumi.livejournal.com]

Catholics are traditionally Democrat, but most of them now have been voting Republican due to certain concerns.

[thadrin.livejournal.com]

It would help if people could remember that church and state are seperate in the US.

Ah well. Four more years of Bill Hicks managing to be topical and relevant, ten years after his death.

[darkoshi]

I care a lot about moral values. But mine don't match what Christian fundamentalists often call "moral values". And if I were asked about it in a poll like that, I would be suffienciently uncertain about what was really meant, to want to answer... So I might answer that I don't care much about moral values, even though I do.

[darkoshi]

(((sufficiently!))) (suhfishently)

in other words, I think it's morally wrong to go to war for personal gain, and to deny people equal rights based on their sexual preferences, etc.