As you noted, Republicans won largely by squeezing out more votes from their base.

Women clearly represent a strong part of the Democratic base.  I've argued in the past, and I intend to continue, that appealing to women's rights issues is a key to our success.

I cringe when I see our side championing "abortion."  We should be championing "reproductive rights."  And when we do, it should be under the umbrella of women's rights. They may just be words, but the framing is important.  Those who oppose abortion oppose reproductive rights.  Those who oppose reproductive rights oppose women's rights.  Framed that way, it is not an easy thing to have to defend.

I have a decent bit more to say on that, but the more I say the further off topic I go.  These numbers seem to confirm the importance of growing our base, and clearly women play a large role.  We'll not only increase our support among women in general, we'll also likely reverse the trend in sub groups where we've been losing ground.

Capitulation, to recapture the "vital center."

As if we did not fucking win the independents last month and STILL lose.

California, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, Florida, and Georgia will become/grow into larger electoral powerhouses.

And the Latino vote will make or break us.

If you really want to do scholarly work of value do not attempt to combine what you think you surmise from the 2004 national election, with what you think you know about movement in American culture with what you can point to in a statistical survey from another source.

That will lead you down a blind alley and makes you one more voice leading people astray from ever being able to think and act independently about their ethical and political life.

You need to stand back and think about what you are doing.

Is it moral to kill 100,000 Iraqi and hide that truth from the American people about what is being done in their name? Is "Democracy is on the March" as GW Bush would say.

Is it moral, is it really helpful to buy into the propaganda which they use to support their immoral actions?

I believe there is a greater moral truth and value  and perspective which comes from the left, but your work is becoming a tool for the misinformation coming from the right.

You asked us in a poll, do we want to see more coverage of the stolen election?

Even your sycophants could not save that one for you, the answer was yes.

And I would bet if you could put a similar poll to the type of people who would support this site, they would say they want the work on this site to be independent of what they know IS a constant stream of propaganda coming from the corporate media about our moral and ethical culture, as much as they have already made themselves clear to you about how they feel about the stolen electionS.

The study you site is tainted by the stream of right leaning propaganda many people have been subject to. Don't validate its erronious conclusions by combining it with other invalid data and misinformation from our oppositions propagandists.

Your further mistake is to attempt to combine this misleading polling data with what you think you know about the 2004 election and what you think you know about the trends for morality as it is represented in the mass media.