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Politics : High Tolerance Plasticity
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To: kodiak_bull who wrote (22183)11/4/2004 1:17:26 PM
From: cnyndwllr  Read Replies (2) of 23153
 
Kodiak, please note that even in the most conservative southern states around 1/3 of the votes were for Kerry. Look at the other elections there, look at the words of their candidates and then tell me that area of the country doesn't tend to be more ignorant.

You cannot blindly label all voters in a region as backwards and ignorant. I do think, however, that many more voters in the south tend to be less educated than in the west, the north or the northeast, and I think that's proven out by statistics. Have you ever spent time in a place like southern Ohio or Kentucky; I have.

Having said that, I note that my own county in the west was more pro Bush than Oklahoma. The reason; strong fundamental Christians make up a great percentages of the voters.

We'll soon arrive at a place where politicians become as phoney in terms of religious convictions as the snake oil evangelicals on late night television asking viewers to send in a few of their last dollars and relating stories of previous givers who then "got jobs..won the lottery..recovered from cancer, etc.."

Or do you personally buy into the magical thinking idea that every word of the bible is gospel, that God works through Bush and that a leader acting pursuant to such thinking will chart a better path than one listening to experts and exercising informed, realistic and intelligent reasoning? Ed
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