The Atlantic Monthly | January/February 2003 The Agenda Blue Movie The "morality gap" is becoming the key variable in American politics by Thomas Byrne Edsall arly in the 1996 election campaign Dick Morris and Mark Penn, two of Bill Clinton's advisers, discovered a polling technique that proved to be one of the best ways of determining whether a voter was more likely to choose Clinton or Bob Dole for President. Respondents were asked five questions, four of which tested attitudes toward sex: Do you believe homosexuality is morally wrong? Do you ever personally look at pornography? Would you look...