I agree with you on "moderates" I don't know that they really exist outside of the media agitation machine come election time. It seems to me there are three classes of voter republican, democrat, and disinterested.
Also, is anyone really following the Dover trial that closely? (I confess that I haven't) will anyone care come 2008? Or even next year?
Is creationism v. evolution that hot of a political topic outside of a political forum such as this?
BTW, I am not stringing you along to drop anything on you :) If I do, you have the right to yell at me until your keyboard breaks. I just haven't been too involved in this on FR and I am curious about the broader picture.
I ask you to reconsider your view that it is not big. Creationists/ID people are hanging on the trial. If the School Board wins they will trumpet it and push the same into every School System they can find. BTW the attack isn't just on Evolution, although it gets the brunt of the attack. It also concerns almost every field of science, since the literal reading of Genesis conflicts with almost every area of science. It also opens the door for an American Theocracy. Something we should all fear.
Scientist are generally a very quiet lot, politically. They prefer to chase their pet ideas in a lab. But this assault could well bring them out into public focus and then people will then see rational, experimental science vs. faith. Will this affect a "swing" voter? I think it will.