Re: [Goanet]The values - vote myth (NYTimes Op-ed)

[Peter D'Souza]

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Dan Soares wrote:
   http://tinyurl.com/3lga8 (linked to David Brook's article)
Santosh Helekar responded:
   What better way there is to counter a link from New York Times than 
to provide a link from Fox News that says exactly the opposite? Link: 
http://tinyurl.com/42wyj   
[Both links abbreviated via tinyurl.com]

Santosh,
   David Brooks doesn't actually contradict the statements in the Fox 
News article. In fact, all he says is that the numbers of evangelical 
Christians who voted this year were not *proportionately higher* than 
those who voted in 2000. The actual number of evangelical voters may 
have grown, but so did the numbers for other demographic groups. In the 
Fox News story you cited one of the analysts said: "I think the biggest 
surprise was that the social concerns best associated with the 
Evangelicals resonated with people who did not necessarily fit that 
group."  That statement is part of the point that David Brooks was 
trying to make. So the mass turnout by the left (Paul Krugman's 
predictor of a Bush defeat) was effectively countered by a 
proportionately high turnout by the right (a.k.a. the correct).
   Peter