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What Really Happened?: Survey Results Debunk the Myths of 2004 Election
The Richmond TIMES-DISPATCH ^ | November 24, 2004 | JIM MCLAUGHLIN and JOHN MCLAUGHLIN

Posted on 11/29/2004 12:39:51 PM PST by neverdem

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Washington. The theories from liberals and the old media as to why John Kerry lost the presidential election reconfirm that they just don't understand the values and priorities of middle-class America. While they seem to believe that most Americans who voted for President Bush are idiots, religious zealots, or both, the results from our post-election survey show the American people gave President Bush a clear victory for practical and common-sense reasons. They voted for George W. Bush because they trusted his character and were more in agreement with him on the two most important issues of the day: fighting the war on terror and improving the economy.

In spite of what liberals and the media may say, the voters made an educated and rational decision in giving President Bush a clear victory on Election Day.

Myth #1: The American people don't like George W. Bush or his policies.

Fact: A clear majority of voters (54 percent) approves of the job Bush has done as President.

Ironically, President Bush's favorable rating was lower than his job approval rating. This means people voted for Bush because they believed he was doing a good job and agreed with him on the most important issues of the day, which were keeping America safe from terror and improving the economy.

Myth #2: American voters didn't vote for Bush; they were voting against Kerry, and didn't want to change horses during a time of war.

Fact: 83 percent of Bush voters said they were voting for George W. Bush; while only 11 percent said they were voting against John Kerry. The leading responses as to why Americans voted for Bush were because they felt he was doing a good job and they agreed with him on the issues.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesdispatch.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2004election; bush; bushhaters; bushvictory; bushwins; iraq; kerry; kerrydefeat; lyingliars; mediabias; myth; traitorslose; zogbyism
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To: neverdem

Decent read, I was prepared for a read on the website of a similar name, you know, the one that purports that W ordered the attack on 9/11 that the pentagon was a missile and all that other absolute nonsense.

I spent Thankgiving at my Mother's home in Ohio. She's a lib, as is my sister. We got into a major confrontation. They threw out "Oh, I guess you didn't see Fahrenheit 9/11" I absolutely BLEW my stack. They think I'm a rube, when I'm the most informed person in my family. It boggles the mind how well leftist propganda works.


61 posted on 11/29/2004 4:32:02 PM PST by Malsua
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To: CAPTAIN PHOTON

Hehe - Captain Photon account "banned or suspended." Nuff said.


62 posted on 11/29/2004 4:32:06 PM PST by Thommas
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To: Paul Ross

Point taken. I don't dispute your comments.


63 posted on 11/29/2004 4:32:13 PM PST by My2Cents ("Well...there you go again.")
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To: Timeout; Wolfstar
I miss the Daily Kerry Crack-ups!

As do many of us.

64 posted on 11/29/2004 4:33:22 PM PST by My2Cents ("Well...there you go again.")
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To: sauropod

read later


65 posted on 11/29/2004 4:33:47 PM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: Malsua
"Oh, I guess you didn't see Fahrenheit 9/11"

"You were uninformed enough not to see the dozen completely unsupportable distortions in the first three minutes, and not get sick?" :)

66 posted on 11/29/2004 4:35:06 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Thommas

Turn out the lights on "Captain Photon."


67 posted on 11/29/2004 4:35:46 PM PST by My2Cents ("Well...there you go again.")
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To: CAPTAIN PHOTON
ONE of those "Bonesmen" has acquitted Himself With Honor--the OTHER is a "World-Class Phony!!"

You "Figure It Out."

"The People" were NOT fooled.

Doc

68 posted on 11/29/2004 4:39:10 PM PST by Doc On The Bay
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To: cyncooper
Farewell, Captain, we barely knew ye..

Darn, just as I was going to ask the Captain to explain how "inarticulateness" differs from "the ability to speak coherently."

69 posted on 11/29/2004 5:12:02 PM PST by OldPossum
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To: Howlin

Thanks


70 posted on 11/29/2004 5:12:13 PM PST by firewalk
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To: OldPossum

ability = inability


71 posted on 11/29/2004 5:16:38 PM PST by OldPossum
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To: The Doctor
I didn't know what you meant by RTD until I copied and pasted the URL. I usually only go to out of town paper's when the evil and most effective lobby in the country, and it's oldest civil rights organization, suggests it in their "in the News" of the day.

I immediately recognized the quotes. They're from the town I was born in and where I still happen to live. I can't wait to leave it. I was going to post the article. It was posted three times, at least one time poorly edited. It totaled about 9300 hits here on FR. These folks here in the Big Apple have attracted some of the worst idiots, freaks and schemers from all over the world. There are still some decent folks here with common sense, but the overwhelming majority are clueless. Here's the story from where the quotes originated.

A Blue City (Disconsolate, Even) Bewildered by a Red America

72 posted on 11/29/2004 6:12:36 PM PST by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: Howlin



This is really good.
Thanks for the ping.


73 posted on 11/29/2004 6:51:26 PM PST by onyx
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To: neverdem
Neverdem, I just assumed you were a Virginian, since you posted a Richmond Times-Dispatch article.

I have friends in the City, and in-laws on the island and in Chappaqua (one of the only Republican families there!). I love New York, and it's equally disheartening to me to read quotes from presumably knowledgable professionals who should know better than to stereotype those of us in the South. I live here because I abhor pretension, and despite the stereotypes others have of us, we are a friendly, tolerant people.

I know what it's like to dislike where you live. I lived in San Diego for 11 years, 8 of which were wonderful. Then the materialism got to me, and it was time to re-pioneer the South.

Are you in the medical profession?

74 posted on 11/29/2004 7:47:21 PM PST by The Doctor (Ph.D. from the South)
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To: The Doctor
Are you in the medical profession?

Affirmative, FP doc. Yourself?

75 posted on 11/29/2004 7:52:14 PM PST by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: neverdem

I'm a psychologist, definitely not in the mold of the APA activitists. My specialty is cognitive assessment and treatment.


76 posted on 11/29/2004 7:55:04 PM PST by The Doctor (Ph.D. from the South)
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To: Howlin

Thanks! Refreshing read.


77 posted on 11/29/2004 9:14:41 PM PST by windchime (Won't it be great watching President Bush spend political capital?)
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marker


78 posted on 11/29/2004 10:13:06 PM PST by GretchenM (Because the wicked never stop, the righteous must work even harder.)
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To: highpockets

I was in Korea, only for a year, but in that year I met a few enlisted who had just received their third Purple Heart.

NONE of them wanted to go home until their buddies did!


79 posted on 11/29/2004 10:20:25 PM PST by Old Jarhead 46 (Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty! - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: anniegetyourgun
What a clear, concise, and readable synopsis of the whole affair.

Jim and John, and YOU, seem to want to spin this away from what is uncomfortable for them. The guy at PEW only took 48 hrs. or so before wanting to INSIST that 'value voters' didn't really matter - it was the war, or the economy. I said at the time, here and in the journal, that the left would be uncomfortable with the idea that people of faith voted Bush in. That would suggest that people of faith might be rewarded by a pro-life Justice, or high court appointees, a pro-life Amendment and whatever else. Defense of marriage, and so on.

But the effort to spin this as just another Marxist exercise is not convincing. And I just wanted to tell you that.

80 posted on 11/29/2004 11:23:56 PM PST by sevry
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