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Poll: Dems More Trustworthy On Morality, “War On Terror”; What Is The World Coming To?

For the first time since 2001, the NEWSWEEK poll shows that more Americans trust the Democrats than the GOP on moral values and the war on terror. Fully 53 percent of Americans want the Democrats to win control of Congress next month, including 10 percent of Republicans, compared to just 35 percent who want the […]

For the first time since 2001, the NEWSWEEK poll shows that more Americans trust the Democrats than the GOP on moral values and the war on terror. Fully 53 percent of Americans want the Democrats to win control of Congress next month, including 10 percent of Republicans, compared to just 35 percent who want the GOP to retain power. If the election were held today, 51 percent of likely voters would vote for the Democrat in their district versus 39 percent who would vote for the Republican. And while the race is closer among male voters (46 percent for the Democrats vs. 42 percent for the Republicans), the Democrats lead among women voters 56 to 34 percent. ~Newsweek

If we can’t rely on our stable stereotypes of the Democrats as morally indulgent and incompetent on national security–two mantles that the GOP seems very keen on acquiring for itself lately–the world will be thrown into chaos!  How will people be able to scare themselves into supporting the torture-endorsing, government-expanding, Islamist-enabling, war-starting, Constitution-gutting, monocracy-loving, ideological and utopian GOP if they lose their ability to distrust the Democrats on morality and national security?  Are Republicans aware of just how badly they have screwed up that the public trusts Democrats on moral values (42-36%)?  The “culture of corruption” charge wasn’t going to appeal to anyone, eh, guys?  I guess that prediction was not quite accurate.  Do they grasp how badly they have failed when they see that more men support the Democrats?  Perhaps they still retain their traditional edge among white men, but to be losing among men is an extremely bad sign.   

It was just yesterday, or so it seemed, that we could all laugh at the genuinely pathetic attempts of Democrats trying to rustle up people from their ranks who actually, well, believed in God, went to church and weren’t afraid to say so in public.  Was it not just two years ago that the “values voters” saved Bush’s re-election in their rejection of galloping cultural liberalism?  Were we not on the cusp of the new governing majority, chockful of the security moms?  Presumably most of those core conservatives are still convinced that the GOP is better on moral questions (as it happens, they actually are better, at least in terms of their rhetoric and symbolic appeals) and also on the “war on terror,” but it is a measure of just how far they have fallen that even a plurality now looks to the incorrigible Dems rather than to them on these issues, issues that they have owned for five years.  Just as it is with moral values, so also with the “war on terror”: they have no one but themselves to blame for the public’s loss of confidence in them.

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