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To: TimF who wrote (94336)	11/6/2008 1:01:03 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (2) of 541582

Tim, I think you miss Rambi's points. She says, some of those "values" may not be as attractive as they once were. Or rather, they won't have the same priority. Firstly, younger people are basically less bothered about other people's choices and behaviour. Their morality is far more about live-and-let-live and far less about restricting anyone else's behaviour. And being younger they aren't attached to tradition, by "what used to be acceptable" because to them that's just history. So proscriptive and prescriptive rules on personal behaviour, both more the Republican stance, are less attractive. And secondly, even if the young (sub-25) by and large agree with the Republican positions on social issues - which IMO is a big if - they are mostly not very bothered by them, in either direction. They're not such significant issues, even if they care. So harping on about them as dominant issues to sway the vote isn't going to be so attractive even to those more inclined to agree. But it probably will motivate the majority to vote otherwise, because it makes the party pushing these issues seem both against their views AND irrelevant.

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