https://freerepublic.com/tag/moral8values/ en-us Fri, 3 Dec 2004 22:27:59 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1293902/posts "Religious Right-style 'values voters'" should not be so quick to crow about having delivered another four years in the White House to George W. Bush. So said an editorial published by Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU) less than two weeks after one of the most heartily contested presidential elections in history. Americans United author Rob Boston, through the overwhelming evidence of two polls and the wit of a few columnists -- one of them published in that trusted bastion of journalistic integrity, The New York Times -- said that when many citizens told pollsters that "moral... BP News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1293902/posts#comment Fri, 3 Dec 2004 22:27:59 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1275275/posts ABC struck back Thursday night at the notion that exit polls, which found that "moral values" led all other topics as the most important issue to voters, meant support for conservative positions on social issues, as if liberal anti-war activists were equally likely to have picked "moral values" as their top issue. With "Moral Values" in quote marks over a red/blue state U.S. map, Peter Jennings treated the concept as alien as he described how "ever since the polls closed on election night, there's been a lot of buzz in the political establishment, in the country at large, about this... MediaResearchCenter https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1275275/posts#comment Tue, 9 Nov 2004 14:34:36 GMT