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By Phillip Carter

Conventional wisdom about faith and politics usually (and falsely) divides ?values voters? motivated by opposition to abortion and gay marriage from an electorate focused on kitchen-table issues like jobs and taxes. This misleading script became a major media story after the 2004 presidential election when a flawed exit poll question separated ?moral values? from broader concerns about the Iraq war, the economy, education and health care. This faulty premise assumed that Americans who care about economic fairness, immigration reform and other moral issues at the heart of their religious traditions left their faith and values outside the voting booth.

Full post as published by Intel Dump on April 01, 2011 (boomark / email).