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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I fail to see how what you posted contradicts anything I stated.
The conjoined turnout of voters concerned with the WOT and Judges made the difference. The domestic turnout you cite would be the traditional Republican voting block that votes every election without fail.
That grouping provided a solid majority that saved us from another 2000 by upping the popular votes, and possibly playing critical roles in states like Ohio where increases in minority communities were vital to electoral success.
Certainly G.W.B. made the case himself that a Republican Senate majority was vital to securing Judicial progress, and made a difference in close senatorial campaigns that elsewise could have gone either way.