This is another scientific theory that was just proved wrong a few months ago by the re- election of President Bush .
This is another scientific theory that was just proved wrong a few months ago by the re- election of President Bush .
You clearly don't have a very good grasp of what would constitute "proof" or "disproof". Don't quit your day job.
There is no contradiction between "turning off large numbers of potential Republican voters" and "Bush managed to win last November".
For example, note that with all Bush had going for him -- and all of Kerry's negatives (even the *Democrats* didn't really like him much), the election was *way* closer than the issues or the men would have warranted. Bush should have won that election in a walk. Instead, it was a late-night nailbiter, with the outcome finally depending on which way a couple of very close states went.
And if the candidates had been more closely matched in personality and competence, the Republicans would have lost handily. This time, Bush was very lucky that he faced a complete clown of an opponent -- and even *then* it wasn't a Republican blowout.
Maybe you're willing to accept "squeakers" every time, but I'm not.
And I have *personally* encountered more people than I can count who actually agree with more conservative principles than liberal ones, but who are primarily turned off from voting Republican because of the "don't you dare mention evolution it's deception from the devil" loudmouths, who aren't the majority among the Christian Right, but who make most of the noise and give the impression that maybe all conservative Christians are rejects from a filming of "Inherit the Wind". It does indeed scare a lot of potential voters away, whether or not you care to admit it.