Quickie Election Analysis
From a tour around the blogosphere, there appear to be three main theories as to why Bush won the election.
- More Americans trusted him on matters of security.
- Republicans are just ignorant Jesus freaks.
- Democrats are just big meanies who think they're smarter than most people.
The analysis of the exit polls, when you factor out things like separating terrorism (19%) from Iraq (15%) and economy/jobs (20%) from taxes (5%) indicate that more people cared about foreign policy (34%) and economic policy (25%) than moral values (22%). Furthermore, evangelicals turned out in the same numbers as they did in 2000 (20%). Being pissed off about intellectual snobbishness didn't even make the list.