Flying FuManchu
New Yorker
Republican political consultant Bill Greener said people in the nation's "heartland," where Republicans racked up one victory over another, often saw urban Democrats on the East and West Coasts as smug and elitist.
"If you project a view that people who express strong religious faith are a threat, people who hold that faith are going to feel a sense of resentment," he said.
This thread feeds into that quote or exemplifies the problem IMO and probably helped contribute to the fall of Kerry. That is probably why you might have had exit polls saying Kerry was going to stomp Bush but in the end Kerry got beat.
IMO and this is my opinion, religious people i.e. evangelicals aren't always loud and obnoxious. Some are actually very to themselves and not very vocal about the beliefs b/c they do not want to offend. Yet they hold those beliefs strongly. Sort of like not rocking the boat and the desire to be loved/ liked by people. So IMO probably many decided not to participate in exit polls are come out strongly for Bush in the open while still voting for Bush,... LOL. Sort of similar to what actor Ron Silver said about there being "Kerry supporters" who voted Republican in secret (they don't want to be ostracized by the "majority." There are probably more evangelicals then we probably believe and IMO this election shows that b/c I personally thought Bush was going to lose and the "youth vote" would help take it (LOL at vote or die).
Now the pundits are pointing to the "evangelical" vote as being the key to victory for Bush. The question is, how are the Democrats going to react to this. Are they going to be resentful and more abrasive towards evangelicals (who have shown voting power stronger than the youth vote) or are they going to reach out alah the Republicans sort of have (i.e. their propping up of Powell, Guiliani, Scwarzenegger, Rice, Ridge, etc.).
Some of the above posts indicate more what we see in the quote made by Bill Greener.
But don't let me stop some people from attacking religious beliefs that some people really hold dear to their hearts.
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