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Some of you obviously know nothing about statistics.
The numbers given were based on exit polls. These are meaningless but it is incredibly hard to measure how people voted so the media releases them. In fact I believe these exit poll numbers were released in the afternoon.
As for someone saying there is a difference between evangelicals and fundamentalists, actually the voting bloc is called evangelicals. It was Carter that mobilized them, Reagan that moved them, and later George Bush who connected with them to get his father elected and then for his own popular election. The Fourth Great Awakening by Robert Fogel talks extensively abotu the evangelical movement.
As for liberals being close minded, of course it's true. If it wasn't you wouldn't have all the Democrat strategists on television this last week talking about how the party culturally talks down to people (to be fair they said Republicans economically look down on people). That was a huge weakness for the party this year (not just Bush) and people reacted and voted.
-Rudey
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