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To: Bill who wrote (182270)	10/10/2006 6:38:03 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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.

To: Bill who wrote (182270)	10/10/2006 6:48:03 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794221

According to Brumar, most people in the audience applauding The Vagina Monologues are voting liberal. Does that give us the VM voting bloc? :) A bloc is a group of people who group together for a purpose. If you look up the two terms "Evangelical Christians" and voting bloc" you will find them linked in a variety of articles as a potent force in politics, one that candidates take seriously as exactly that- a group to be wooed based on their common interest and goals. I suppose you could alienate the Jewish vote by not supporting Israel, but whether they all vote together and vote based on that special interest, I don't know. If so, then they would be a bloc because of a common goal, but not because they were Jewish. Probably gets a lot fuzzier trying to define the black vote as a bloc.