A good perspectives piece from the Baltimore Sun:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.morality19nov19,1,3958983.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines. DEMOCRATS ARE complaining bitterly that about 80 percent of Americans who cited "moral values" as their most important issue in exit polls voted for President Bush.
How can anyone concerned about moral values, they wonder, endorse a leader who misled this country into war, arranged for billionaires to pay less in taxes and gave the United States and hopes for democracy a bad name around the globe?
How can anyone concerned about moral values vote for a man whose first term saw such dramatic increases in poverty and inequality?
But this easy amazement obscures a deeper problem: If the Democratic Party platform and candidate for president embodied moral values more faithfully than the Republicans, why didn't a large percentage of people voting Democratic cite moral values as their highest concern?