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The rock-solid core of the Grand Old Party is constituted of committed pro-lifers. They just won a victory of historic proportions.

No matter how many times you post it, it's not true; evangelicals/pro-lifers voted in the same numbers they did in 2000, period. If you don't like those figures, take it up with Pew Research and Michael Barone.

Excuse us if we don't take kindly to a bunch of RINOs attempting to rob us of the fruit of that victory:

You're not going to have any more say in what goes on for the next four years than any of the rest of the groups, all of whom voted 5 to 7 percent more than they did in 2000, in what the agenda will be for the next four years; bullying other groups in the GOP certainly isn't going to endear you to the rest of us.

The advancement of a return to a culture that respects innocent human life.

Again, abortion was NOT on the list of things people said they voted about this year.

No one asked me nor most everyone I know...not a single one of us would've gone to the polls, let alone lift a finger for Bush, were he pro-life...Bush would've lost the election in the Red States before the polls closed on the east coast.

No one asked me nor most everyone I know...not a single one of us would've gone to the polls, let alone lift a finger for Bush, were he not perceived to be pro-life...Bush would've lost the election in the Red States before the polls closed on the east coast. And he's always known that, trust me...

Wasn't Pew research one of the ones who misjudged the outcome of the election?

Nevertheless, the Kansas City Star says the Pew information confirms that more Catholics and Evangelicals turned out and more of them voted for the President:

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/10122797.htm

""Catholics represent about a quarter of the electorate, or about 31 million voters this year, and Bush had aggressively courted them, particularly in battleground states.

The president got a noticeable boost from white Catholics, whose support rose to 56 percent from 52 percent four years ago. He also did better among Hispanic Catholics, who turned out in larger numbers and gave Bush 44 percent of their vote, up from 35 percent in 2000.

Because turnout rose overall this year, analysts were not concluding that the Catholic help nationally was the decisive difference for Bush. About 80 percent of white evangelicals went for the president, delivering him about 20.6 million votes, or about 1.3 million more than in 2000.

Catholics are hardly a monolithic bloc. Catholics who said they did not attend Mass weekly - and who outnumbered observant voters - preferred Kerry, 50 percent to 49 percent.""