[IStillBelieve]

Rove played down the importance to the campaign of "moral values," which exit polls last Tuesday unexpectedly identified as a major consideration of many voters, especially those who voted for Bush.

Rove said 34 percent of the voters were motivated by issues surrounding Iraq and the war on terror, compared with 30 percent motivated by moral values. "What essentially happened in this election was that people became concerned about three issues: first the war, then the economy, jobs and taxes and then moral values. And then everything else dropped off of the plate," he said.

[LS]

Fox's exit polls showed that the WOT/Iraq WAS the main issue, except, as usual, the idiot pollsters separated them into two categories, allowing "moral issues" to look more important.

Moral issues are important, but this vote was first and foremost about the WOT.