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To: Joe NYC who wrote (192278)	6/29/2004 9:55:07 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577358

but there won't be a study for everything Sure. There is nothing wrong with guessing possible correlations (between say, demographics and political affiliation) as long as you are clear that it is a guess. The moment such guesses get called 'fact' without any scientific method behind it, these assertions become lies at best and pseudoscience a la lysenkoism at worst. The survey showed that men who grew up in married homes, with involved fathers and regular religious attendance, were more likely to be in the "married" category than "single" category. You do realize that this has nothing to do with political affiliation of either parents and children. If true, these results are actually easier to explain than saying political affiliation is transmissable to children - happy home leads to kids believing in marriage as opposed to constant fighting leading to kids not believing in marriage. Trauma, or lack thereof, in other words. Political affiliation is a more complicated issue of personal preference - one parent can be Republican and another can be Democrat. What are the children going to vote, then? Or even if both parents are Republicans, maybe the kid will get out of Ohio for university, move to California, form his political ideas there and vote Democrat all his life. Besides, is it not true that not everyone votes ONLY Democrat or ONLY Republican throughout their lives? Or, can anyone argue that a woman who has had abortions cannot go on to have five kids when she gets married? How can having had abortions possibly mean a woman will have no kids or less kids than another who had none? This theory of abortion leading to lower voting base for Democrats is such a target-rich environment that frankly I don't know where to start :-)