Reply #78: feel free to try and stir the hornets nest [View All]

[cdp]

it's getting a resounding yawn from me.

Do I think that Bush supporters are all immoral? No. But I think they are, in most instances, less in touch with reality than Kerry supporters.

Jimnm, could you please let me know what you think about this:
http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/Pres_Election_04/Report10_21_04.pdf

Here is an excerpt...

"It is normal during elections for supporters of presidential candidates to have fundamental disagreements about values or strategies," said an analysis produced by PIPA.

But "the current election is unique in that Bush supporters and Kerry supporters have profoundly different perceptions of reality. In the face of a stream of high-level assessments about pre-war Iraq, Bush supporters cling to the refuted beliefs that Iraq had WMD or supported al-Qaeda."

Indeed, the only issue on which the survey found broad agreement between the two sets of voters was on the question of whether the administration itself actively propagated the misconceptions about Iraq's WMD and connections to al-Qaeda.

"One of the reasons that Bush supporters have these (erroneous) beliefs is that they perceive the Bush administration confirming them," noted PIPA Director Steven Kull. "Interestingly, this is one point on which Bush and Kerry supporters agree."

The survey also found a major gap between Bush's stated positions on a number of international issues and what his supporters believe that position to be.”