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Probably because on the socio-economic ladder, I'm on the bottom. Bush's first targets seem to be a lot of helpful programs... Like Section 8 housing to name one... I have GOT to get a better job soon.
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I'm torn between being entirely depressed by what seems to be the inevitable outcome and being ecstatic over the great turnout.
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turnout was awesome. And, the pollsters will have to re-think the conventional wisdom that high turnout favors demos. I head several people on the news tonight, Brokaw among them, remark on the high turnout among Evangelical Christians.
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"I head several people on the news tonight, Brokaw among them, remark on the high turnout among Evangelical Christians."
Yep. I can now say "I told you so" when people call me on my assertion that evangelical Christians were going to ruin the country. Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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Perhaps he means the set of Christians that includes fundamentalists, evangelicals, and those who are both fundamentalist and evangelical?
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Specifically, I believe that a very small minority of religious fanatics is the single greatest danger to the country. Broadly, I think that right-wing Christian groups, allowing themselves to be swayed by these fanatics themselves for a number of reasons, will constitute the army of numbers necessary to ruin the country.
I think if the fanatics were rooted out, the rest of the religious right, which is in general slightly more reasonable, would no longer pose a serious threat to American society.
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I tell you it's refreshing to feel that you think I'm a danger to America Tom.
Let's see, there was record turnout in all areas - record registration among young people, huge voter drives in the inner cities registering millions of minorities, and the country went solidly for Bush. NOt only did he win the electoral college handily, he also won the popular vote - being the first man to get over 50% since his father. The Republicans also picked up seats in both house and Senate - instead of narrowly holding their majority in the Senate they now have a comfortable majority.
More people voted than anyone expected and Bush was a clear winner.
So...what fringe fanatic group is ruining the country? Seems to me that this is the clearest victory for a party in decades. It would take a lot more than just a fringe of the religious right to pull this off.
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