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Friday, October 05, 2007
Matt Towery :: Townhall.com Columnist
New Survey: "Religious Conservatives" A Shrinking Influence Among Voters
by Matt Towery
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A new survey of the five states that will hold caucuses or primaries prior to February's "Tsunami Tuesday" indicates the so-called "religious right" is a shrinking force among Republicans who say they will vote in their states' presidential primaries.

The poll offered significant indications that the new makeup of Republican voters is no longer that of a party dominated by social- or religious-based voters.

Last year, incumbent Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, who was viewed by most as a moderate conservative, drubbed former Alabama Justice Roy Moore, who championed the cause of keeping the 10 Commandments at an Alabama courthouse.

In Georgia, former Christian Coalition national director Ralph Reed was solidly defeated in a bid for his state's nomination for lieutenant governor. In fact, Georgia's true Christian Coalition actually disbanded and regrouped under a different name.

Throughout the so-called Bible Belt, GOP voters were showing a strong inkling that while they may be intensely religious, they aren't as interested in mixing politics and personal religious beliefs as some pundits might think.

Here is the rundown of the new polls. Our InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion survey of each of the states had at least 700-plus respondents. In most states, the number was well over 1,000, meaning the margin of error for each of the polls was a very tight plus-or-minus 3 percentage points. Each poll interviewed likely Republican voters and was weighted for age, race and gender.

Our survey asked likely Republican presidential primary voters in these critical early states if, in their political philosophy, they are primarily:

A conservative based on religious-based or related considerations

A conservative in general

A moderate conservative

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Matt Towery is a former National Republican legislator of the year and author of Powerchicks: How Women Will Dominate America.
 
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Wall street Republicans
They just don't get it. They want "free trade" which is not "free trade" to anyone but the big businesses and corporates. I voted for Bush both times and he is absolutely destroying this country with his so called free trade. When he took office the oil was $22 a barrel for oil, now it is $81 a barrel. We have never had so many illegals in this country and footing the bill for everything that they need. We need to vote for someone that is for border control and enforcing the laws on immigration!

That's good Lilly
I'm glad you don't want YOUR tax dollars spent for that which is against YOUR conscience.

Because, now you know what it feels like to watch your tax dollars go to sending a child who escaped tyranny back to a cruel and vicious dictator because you couldn't admit politically that a communist dictatorship just might be a bad place.

Now you know what it feels like to see your FBI used for partisan political gain with hundreds of FBI files used for who knows what.

Now you know what it feels like to have your tax dollars spent on bombing hundreds of thousands of people out of their homes in Kosovo who "never did anything to us."

Now you know what it feels like to have your tax dollars fund warlords in Mogadishu.

Now you know what it feels like to have your tax dollars spent on federal agencies burning dozens of people to death and violating posse comitatus because the president doesn't like the second amendment.

Now you know what it feels like to have the whitehouse turned into a brothel and hotel at the taxpayers expense.

I'm glad it makes your "conscience just about throw up," Lilly. Because, frankly, I wasn't sure you people even had a conscience.
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