Democrat Core Voters Slipping Away

The Los Angeles Times ^ | 1/25/04 | Tony Quinn

[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. I get enough junk e-mail as it is.

[wingster]

Indeed! Ditto!

Ya'd think they'd be beggin' people to read the drivel in their screed scrolls. Current piece excepted perhaps...

[Behind Liberal Lines]

That's what email addresses at hotmail are for.

[suzyq5558]

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.

[Oberon]

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.

[suzyq5558]

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.

[woofer]

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.

[Ditter]

>>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

[San Jacinto]

Ditto to the Ditter.

Anyway, I can tell from the first 2 paragraphs that it's full of holes.

[prairiebreeze]

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It must've given the editors at the LA Slimes a rash to print this. Makes me grin though.

Prairie

[prairiebreeze]

Preview is our friend

[SamAdams76]

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.

[alrea]

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

it'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.

[SandRat]

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 ----

[truthandjustice1]

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.

[Sam Cree]

"the State Judicial Supreme Court has taken away my right to vote with just one ruling."

How did it do that?

[Zechariah11]

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.

[wayoverontheright]

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.

[truthandjustice1]

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.