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To: Bill who wrote (182270)10/10/2006 6:38:03 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 794221
 
I guess you could call them voting blocs.

Indeed.

If 80% of pro-choice people vote for one party, is that also a bloc?

Pro-choice is a position on an issue, not a demographic. Black Protestants and Jews are demographics. It's not the same thing.

I would call pro-choicers an interest group, not a voting bloc but I don't claim any expertise on the terminology. It seems logical to me that a voting bloc would necessarily have to be defined by some factor and their issues would be derivative. For pro-choicers, the issue is primary, not derivative.
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