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Titolo: Neo fondamentalismo in America?

se ne era parlato qualche giorno fa. i dati smentiscono la convinzione che
Bush abbia vinto grazie ai born again della bible belt. qui un articolo di
Time con dei dati interessanti, che contraddicono l'opinione della vittoria
fondamentalista.
in realtā, se ne deduce, gli americani hanno scelto fra due candidati di
centro quello che li convinceva di pių sui temi della politica estera e
sicurezza nazionale.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,1101041122-782133,00.html
 Monday, Nov. 15, 2004
The Folklore of Election '04
Debunking the falsehoods springing from this November's contest
By KAREN TUMULTY
Few political rituals are so honored as overreading the results of an
election. In the rush to explain this one, at least six myths have taken
root:
A tidal wave of churchgoers won the day. As Democratic pollster Geoffrey
Garin notes, the percentage of the voting electorate that attends church
once a week was 42%-precisely what it was in 2000. And President Bush's
percentage of that vote was 58%, up a mere point from 2000. Bush's greatest
gains came among voters who attend church less often, including an increase
of 4 percentage points of those who never go.
People based their votes on their moral values. Though 22% cited their moral
values as the deciding issue, the percentage that cited one of the two
biggest foreign policy issues, Iraq and terrorism, was significantly
higher-34%. And it turns out that a "moral value" is in the conscience of
the beholder. In a poll due out this week from the Center for American
Progress, a left-leaning think tank, 42% of respondents said the war in Iraq
was the most important moral issue influencing their vote, compared with 13%
who chose abortion and less than 10% who chose gay marriage.
All the hype about young voters was wrong; they stayed home, as they always
do. Yes and no. After a lengthy slide in youth voting, nearly 21 million
under-30 voters showed up at the polls this year, a 9% increase from 2000.
But since just about everyone else showed up in bigger numbers too, their
percentage of the total electorate was roughly what it was four years ago.
The hundreds of millions George Soros and other Bush foes poured into
turning out the Democratic base was a waste. The outcome may not have been
to their liking, but the Democrats' efforts paid off. Kerry got about 4.1
million votes more than Al Gore did four years ago. And nearly 60% of that
increase can be found in the states that were targeted by the independent
groups. What they didn't count on: that the Republican turnout operation
produced an even bigger surge of 8.2 million votes nationally for Bush.
The country has moved to the right on social issues. TIME's polling suggests
that voters remain where they have been for a very long time: in the
moderate middle on the most sizzling social issues. They overwhelmingly
favor (69% to 22%) using discarded embryos for stem-cell research; only 9%
oppose abortion in all circumstances; and while 58% say they oppose gay
marriage, about the same number-60%-approve of some kind of official
recognition of gay unions, an AP poll says.
John Kerry didn't lose the election; it was stolen. Conspiracy theories
abound on left-leaning websites-particularly about Florida and Ohio, the two
states that determined the outcome. None of them seem to be holding up. Why,
for instance, did Bush win many Florida counties where the majority of
registered voters are Democrats? Those areas in the northern and central
parts of the state have long traditions of voting Republican in presidential
contests.
-- 
Saluti dal,
Dott. Mag. Uno Qualunque (fu: Fil),
di padre Qualunque e madre Qualsiasi,
"...sono un numero e nulla pių..." (P.F.M.)

 fondamentalista.
la cosiddetta "vittoria fondamentalista" è stata pubblicizzata per primo da
Rove, responsabile delle elezioni per Bush
l'articolo è interessante, d'altronde se si pensa che Bush ha preso il 3% di
voti in più di Kerry è logico pensare che non sia stata solo la vittoria
dell'integralismo religioso e morale, ma più che altro si è consolidata la
tradizione che non si cambia il presidente in guerra
-- 
Gert dal Pozzo
".. mi chiedo se in fondo anche la democrazia come noi la pratichiamo non è
una perversione della democrazia originale, non fa che portare al potere la
mediocrità, i piccoli, quelli che dicono le cose banali." (T. Terzani)

 
E neppure il presidente al primo mandato, non dimentichiamoci che sono 
stati pochissimi quelli che non hanno avuto un secondo mandato perchè 
trombati dagli elettori.
-- 
Claudio  ICQ 150632298
Just an illusion
Reality: Just the illusion created by the lack of drugs in our society.
Realtà: semplice illusione creata dalla carenza di droghe nella nostra 
società.
Traduzione alla bell'emmeglio ad opera di  UrbanRat

 sicurezza nazionale.
E' stata la sua bravura, a far credere fossero le uniche cose importanti.
L'hai visto poi "Sesso e potere"?
-- 
Chi salvo fra Dini, D'Alema, Prodi, Veltroni e Bertinotti? Li butto tutti 
dalla torre e poi chiedo il Nobel per la pace. (La Stampa, 30.10.1995)