Texas Dem: Texans vote on 'God, guns, gays and abortion'

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Texas Dem: Texans vote on 'God, guns, gays and abortion' | WashingtonExaminer.com

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"I come from a land where the voters pick candidates … on God, guns, gays and abortion," said State Rep. Jessica Farrar, the Democratic Caucus Leader in the Texas House of Representatives. "In doing so, they have overlooked their economic situation."
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In discussing the sales tax in Texas, Farrar said it was "implicitly unfair" that people pay the same amount in tax regardless of their income and that Democrats need to educate the middle class on what a sales tax hike would mean. "I just don't know that there's enough knowledge about tax policy," Farrar said.

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State Rep. Fred Strahorn, the minority leader in Ohio, said he believed many voters agreed with Democrats on economic issues but let their faith guide their vote instead. "All these things that are involved in terms of people making decisions about what affects them, making decisions based on morality, where we have voters that agree with us on 80 percent of the issues, but because of that thing they sacralize, like faith, they will make a decision on that smaller part of the equation," Strahorn said.

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1. Because nothing demonstrates your faith in God like a gun strapped to your hip.

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2. Popemobile~

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3. Pic URL: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/walker66/popemobile-papa2532011pu.jpg~original

Comments are my own.

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4. It's the gun thing in WV

I know people, used to be Democrats but since the gun control passed during the Clinton admin are republicans. They probably agree with dems on 90% of other issues esp the ones that are on gov't checks.

However it's like nothing can convince them the dems are not after their guns.

I mean I often point out that the dems controlled the congress starting in 2006. We have had a dem president since 2008, and in nearly all states and at the federal level we have only really seen a loosening of gun laws.

However there is a whole internet thing of viral emails, facebook posts and internet forums that continually churn out conspiracy theories that the Dems somehow pushing gun control is right around the corner that keeps the belief strong, even in absence of the facts.