WOT and Judges were responsible for the election of the President and the Republican Majority.
Two groups made that majority possible. Whether the people that stayed home in 2000 made the difference, or whether it was new influx of voterss motivated by these two issues, isn't a point that ultimately matters. What I know is that both were motivating issues that made the difference.
It resulted in an election that could have been another 2000, instead being settled the day after. That cushion of voters prevented another nightmare of drawn out court battles.
On the fixed list, 36 percent picked foreign issues, 32 domestic, and 27 moral values. On the open-ended list, 34 percent picked foreign issues, 16 percent picked domestic issues - significantly less interestingly - and 14 percent moral values.
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Hispanics +9 percent
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So when we're saying - as Andrew did correctly - that religious conservatives, and for that matter seculars, were not a much larger share of the electorate than they were in the year 2000, we must also recognize that that means there was a whole, big increase in number of them that turned out; it's just that they didn't turn out by a larger increase than people of other religious beliefs or moral beliefs
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