>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/7/2004 1:21:39 PM >>> Whining over evangelicals electing Bush is also silly. It took an awful lot of the regular "secular christians" also to elect him. It's always silly to ascribe an electoral victory (or defeat) to any one component of the votes for the victor. There are 10s of millions of americans which the left can reach before it has to worry about converting evangelicals to secularism. Carrol <<<<<<>>>>>
some dems think majority of under-30 voters going for kerry bode wells for future, potentially complicating matters, however, are two groups of young people not appearing on conventional "radar screens"... harvard institute of politics study found that college students "in the middle" (which ucla study of incoming freshman has found to be consistently about 50% for several decades) divide almost evenly between religious and secular centrists... neither are said to be predictably conservative or liberal, for example, former support universal health care and affirmative action, but oppose gay marriage... 23% of 18-29 year old respondents to mtv 'choose or lose' poll who think of themselves as "evangelical" or "born again" Christians apparently corresponds to the percentage of all voters in 2004... whether us "culture war" is as intense as media reports suggest is debatable, increased minimum wage in florida won with 72% while kerry got 47-48% in state, some of the 'evangelicals' must have voted in favor of wage initiative... as is always case, dems did not generate sufficient working class turnout, majority of 80% of upper 33% income earner who turned out voted for bush, most of 40% of lower 33% income earners voted for kerry without him and his party offering them shit... gee, what if dems had made increasing minumum wage and similar economic issues cornerstone of campaign, might there have been 5-i0% increased turnout among low income earners, if so, he'd have won... this ain't rocket science or brain salad surgery folks... michael hoover -------------------------------------------------------------- Please Note: Due to Florida's very broad public records law, most written communications to or from College employees regarding College business are public records, available to the public and media upon request. Therefore, this e-mail communication may be subject to public disclosure.
