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Democrat Core Voters Slipping Away
The Los Angeles Times ^
| 1/25/04
| Tony Quinn
Posted on 01/25/2004 6:27:41 AM PST by Zechariah11
Edited on 01/25/2004 6:30:57 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator.
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The Politics of Prayer As Democrats abandon traditional values and religion, their core voters are slipping away By Tony Quinn, Tony Quinn is co-editor of the California Target Book, a nonpartisan analysis of California legislative and congressional campaigns.
SACRAMENTO A GOP gerrymander of Democratic districts in Texas will probably add six to eight Republicans to the House. Every other big state is so heavily gerrymandered that no other major changes are likely. This means the GOP majority in the House is expected to grow by at least half a dozen seats.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; california; christianvote; democrats; latinos; protestants; realignment; republicans; texas
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To: Zechariah11
I would like to read this but I'm not going to give the LAT my e-mail address to be able to do that. I get enough junk e-mail as it is.
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posted on
01/25/2004 6:35:52 AM PST
by
Ditter
To: Ditter
Indeed! Ditto!
Ya'd think they'd be beggin' people to read the drivel in their screed scrolls. Current piece excepted perhaps...
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posted on
01/25/2004 6:38:41 AM PST
by
wingster
To: Ditter
That's what email addresses at hotmail are for.
To: Zechariah11
every time i have ever used the password to login to this site its a hassle and ive never once found the article that the poster wanted all of to read.(SIGH) i just went there and its the same thing again so i'll just read what everyone else says about the DEMS core slipping away.
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posted on
01/25/2004 6:53:38 AM PST
by
suzyq5558
(WARNING! this tagline does not dial 911..........)
To: Ditter
Here's the all-important conclusion:
The 2004 Democratic nominee probably will cede the South and border states, as Gore did, because Democrats are too secular and too culturally liberal. The question is whether cultural and religious values will cost them votes in states like California that the former vice president won in 2000.
The Democratic Party is looking down the barrel at its worst showing in three-quarters of a century, a political disaster largely of its own making.
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posted on
01/25/2004 6:54:36 AM PST
by
Oberon
(What does it take to make government shrink?)
To: Oberon
Well i think thats good news:) and the dim's should have known that to alienate folks of religious convictions and core values would eventually see a huge falling away. lots of folks in my own family left the dim party a long time ago thanks to the secular views.abortion and other devilish things the dim's hold dear to their heart. i pray that the dim party bleeds out this time around.
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posted on
01/25/2004 7:00:05 AM PST
by
suzyq5558
(WARNING! this tagline does not dial 911..........)
To: Ditter
I would like to read this but I'm not going to give the LAT my e-mail address to be able to do that. Used ID = biased; Password = biased. It's all be set up.
My Analog-X cookie-Wall had to kill eight cookies the site tried to place on my hard drive.
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posted on
01/25/2004 7:02:54 AM PST
by
woofer
To: Oberon
>>The democrat party is looking at a ..... political disaster of its own making.>>>>
Yes & don't you love it? The vast majority refuse to get over the clinton worship that caused it.
Except for stupidity they could have president gore going into his second term.
ha ha ha ha ha
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posted on
01/25/2004 7:03:38 AM PST
by
Ditter
To: Ditter
Ditto to the Ditter.
Anyway, I can tell from the first 2 paragraphs that it's full of holes.
To: Oberon
http://www.graftongop.org/images/miscellaneous/PrairieBreeze.gifIt must've given the editors at the LA Slimes a rash to print this. Makes me grin though.
Prairie
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posted on
01/25/2004 7:08:55 AM PST
by
prairiebreeze
(God Bless and Protect the Allied Troops. And the families here at home---they are soldiers too.)
To: Oberon
Preview is our friend
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posted on
01/25/2004 7:09:44 AM PST
by
prairiebreeze
(God Bless and Protect the Allied Troops. And the families here at home---they are soldiers too.)
To: Zechariah11
I have noticed in recent years that many working class folk are moving to the Republican Party. All this pro-gay-marriage, welfare-check-giving, anti-military, anti-religion, pro-abortion crap is driving many decent people away. And those who still idolize FDR and JFK are dying away. The Democratic Party is on the verge of becoming a fringe party over the next 20 years.
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posted on
01/25/2004 7:11:04 AM PST
by
SamAdams76
(I got my 401(k) statement - Up 28.02% in 2003 - Thanks to tax cuts and the Bush recovery)
To: SamAdams76
All this pro-gay-marriage, welfare-check-giving, anti-military, anti-religion, pro-abortion crap is driving many decent people away. And those who still idolize FDR and JFK are dying awayit's deception in taking property, plain and simple. everything can be traced to this thread. magically taking property will support a huge huge block of voters, but many democrats own property.
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posted on
01/25/2004 7:16:38 AM PST
by
alrea
(let's go back to when liberalism meant freedom from central authority)
To: Oberon
Let us hope that these words;
The Democratic Party is looking down the barrel at its worst showing in three-quarters of a century, a political disaster largely of its own making. come true and the final result is ----
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posted on
01/25/2004 7:17:34 AM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: SamAdams76
Add to that the diminishing numbers of union members and the dems really are in trouble. In addition, if the Republicans don't stop Judicial activism, this will all be for naught. I live in MA, like you, and I'm upset that the State Judicial Supreme Court has taken away my right to vote with just one ruling.
To: truthandjustice1
"the State Judicial Supreme Court has taken away my right to vote with just one ruling." How did it do that?
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posted on
01/25/2004 7:22:08 AM PST
by
Sam Cree
(Democrats are herd animals)
To: Ditter
Sorry about that. I share your opinion of the LA Times. Here is a bit more:
The Democrats' problem goes beyond simply being irreligious. There's an undercurrent of hostility toward religion in the highest ranks of the party. The Democrats' dismissal of Bush's "faith-based initiative" is just one example of their hostility. Even on an issue like abortion rights, on which Democrats are with the majority of the public, intolerance of any dissent has alienated a mainstay of the New Deal coalition, Roman Catholics.
That's ironic, because the last time the Democrats were in as bad a shape as they are today, 1928, the issue that did them in was religion, specifically the nomination of the Catholic Al Smith for president. Then, the party seemed too religious; now its problem is no religion at all. The gamble Democrats made in 1928, nominating a Catholic for president, paid off handsomely in the half century after Smith, as legions of Irish, Italian and Eastern European Catholics joined Southern and Western Protestants to vote again and again for Democratic majorities. John F. Kennedy's Catholicism is now regarded as crucial to his election in 1960, and he remains the last non-Southern Democrat to win the White House.
To: Oberon
The 2004 Democratic nominee probably will cede the South and border states, as Gore did, because Democrats are too secular and too culturally liberal. The question is whether cultural and religious values will cost them votes in states like California that the former vice president won in 2000.I think they'll lose the south more because of the region's fiscal beliefs than cultural and religious ones. The south has its secular populations who still lean conservative because fiscal issues take precedent. The blue states seem to vote as if they don't understand capitalism or there are simply too many socialists.
To: Sam Cree
The Court ruled that the legislature must come up with laws that recognize homosexual marriage. A ballot initiative that would have defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman was illegally stopped in the state senate by the majority leader that was bought and paid for by homosexual activists.
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