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To: annyokie

And again, people wonder why Bush is having problems with working class voters who own guns, go to church and are culturally conservative. Go on, alienate more people and soon the base gets weaker and weaker. One very iornic things is that the professionals who are most helped by these economic chnages such as Doctors, Lawyers and related feilds, are also trending Democratic based on social issues.


85 posted on 08/02/2004 8:22:56 PM PDT by RFT1
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To: RFT1
One very iornic things is that the professionals who are most helped by these economic chnages such as Doctors, Lawyers and related feilds, are also trending Democratic based on social issues.

The iornic (sic) thing, is all my doctor pals are getting the hell out of PA due to the malpractice insurance charges.

86 posted on 08/02/2004 8:27:07 PM PDT by annyokie (Now with 20% More Infidel!)
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And again, people wonder why Bush is having problems with working class voters who own guns, go to church and are culturally conservative. Go on, alienate more people and soon the base gets weaker and weaker. One very iornic things is that the professionals who are most helped by these economic chnages such as Doctors, Lawyers and related feilds, are also trending Democratic based on social issues

I know, plus the Reagan Democrats helped in the 1980's because of that social conservatism. I know myself, I admit I'm very socially conserative while being more economically moderate. I guess I do have a little bit of Pittsburgh Democrat in me after all, I tend to lean towards fair-trade and somewhat pro-union. Had I lived in the 1930's, I could have voted for FDR. Pittsburgh Democrats are like that. Still over the economic issue, they'll vote for Kerry. We can't have that. Myself, I know better, I think President Bush is poor on some economic issues on the trade and jobs but for the sake of our security, we need to stay the course with this war on terror.

Unfortunatly, the economic is the bread and butter issue of many people and rightly so, so that is our achilles heel.

Still some will be willing to stomach homosexual marriage and other things because of that. Again, I know much better, but there are people who will toss it all for promises of a better economy. If people cannot give good jobs, going down the moral cesspool will not matter. Then again, the Democrats say they will go through on these economic promises but don't do anything on them anyhoo so either way, we are screwed.

I know there are many factors here but we do need to address the issues of "Borders, Language, and Culture" (with apologies to Michael Savage) as well.
99 posted on 08/02/2004 8:56:13 PM PDT by Nowhere Man ("Laws are the spider webs through which the big bugs fly past and the little ones get caught.")
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