(Reuters) "Values" voters fade as factor in U.S. campaign

[rodeodance]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061017/pl_nm/usa_politics_values_dc;_ylt=Au5a88ydAhEDdQOa91z0kxys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-

"Values" voters fade as factor in U.S. campaign

By Joanne Kenen 18 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even before U.S. Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record)'s cybersex scandal, Republicans fighting to keep control of Congress were struggling to hold on to "values voters" who usually are energized by issues like gay marriage and abortion.


While such issues motivated the Republicans' social-conservative base in the past, they are overshadowed in this year's congressional election campaign by concerns about the
Iraq war, the economy and national security, according to opinion polls and political strategists.

"Poverty, the wealth gap, health care -- people can't afford Medicare. Something's got to be done about that," Sue Harrell, a school teacher in Monroe City, Indiana, said recently.
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Such talk has Republicans nervous and Democrats scenting opportunities to recapture the House of Representatives after 12 years in the minority, as well as reduce the Republican advantage in the Senate.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. I guess the fudies are getting fed up with the status

Kuo.

[Lance_Boyle]

4. nice

Kuo-dos to you.

:toast:

[Jackpine Radical]

8. Kuo-dos appreciated.

(I haven't reached my Kuo-ta.)

[BOSSHOG]

2. They are giving up their value of hate when it comes to self preservation

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Turns out that the republicans never shared their values anyway.

They just pretended to.

[flamin lib]

5. And they're beginning to figure the Repubs out.

2000--Gay marriage, abortion. After the Election nothing happens.

2002--Gay marriage, abortion. After the Election nothing happens.

2004--Gay marriage, abortion. After the Election nothing happens.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fooled me three times . . . can't be fooled again.

[cybildisobedience]

6. I'm willing to suggest that there never were "values voters"

I think it was just a convenient excuse offered by a compliant media to explain away bizarre election returns.
Now that even that looks like it won't fly, the next thing we'll be hearing is that the Republicans are "out-performing their poll numbers" with their state-of-the-art get-out-the-vote operation.

In the end, it will be the same - -they'll steal it.

[kurth]

7. You can't eat the Bible

or use it for a down payment on a bicycle.

[johnnyrocket]

9. Those fundies are some slow learning idiots.

Yea, are they getting a clue yet?! Imagine that, health care, poverty, economy more important that gay marrying and stem cells: WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD, FUNDIES!