Posted by
Always To The Right on Friday, November 14, 2008 12:28:52
If someone said that the best way to restore health would be to cut off
an arm and a leg to make the torso more pure, would you sign up for
that surgery? Or would you send that adviser off to either medical
school or a therapist? Christine Todd Whitman and Robert Bostock try
to make that argument to the Republican Party, giving the reverse of the “kill the RINOs” arguments heard elsewhere
Bollocks. The data shows that moderates moved to Barack Obama,
which comes as no surprise after eight years of Republican control of
the White House. Unless Whitman shows that Bush’s position on
embryonic stem-cell research was the leading issue on voters’ minds,
her extrapolation that the shift in moderates came from a sudden
allergy to social conservatism is the worst kind of statistical
manipulation. It’s correlation without causation.
What were the issues foremost on the minds of voters? The failing economy, ethics, and national security. In Rasmussen’s polling on issues, abortion didn’t even make the top five:
- Economy
- Ethics & corruption
- National security
- Education
- Health care
- Taxes
- Iraq
- Social Security
- Abortion
- Immigration