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.
I don't have a day job I'm retired.
As for your vocation I hope it's not in the scientific field, because it seems you are like most of the mainstream established ones who don't know the difference between a theory and fact.
They claim that Christians are idiots and bigots when there is no more bigoted, or idiotic group on the face of the earth than those who set entrenched in the hollowed halls the scientific community when one of their pet theories is challenged.
They are supposed to be open to new ideas and thought and seekers of truth and facts but when it comes to legitimate challenges to evolution they slam the doors to their minds and seek to ridicule and destroy any and all who threaten.
Like the young scientist with a family at the Smithsonian who has had his office taken away and had career targeted from the sanctimonious scientific bigots simply for a comment questioning this theory.
They take a theory which is nothing more than an opinion with some fancy Ph d's or H2o4's tacked on the guy who uttered it and promote it as scientific established fact.
Then when it might be proved wrong all those who feel threatened because they have hung their ego, career, reputation,personal beliefs and paycheck on it immediately form a lynch mob.
You say Bush won because he was "lucky".
Well if that the case next time we can all just stay home because it's the "lucky" one who is going to win anyway.
Then again that's not very scientific.
I say he won because he had a good campaign strategy,had lot of intelligent people working hard for him making the proper decisions and praying for him.
You know ID.