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Super Tuesday Liveblog: They Did It Again (by Duane Shank)

The earliest reports this evening are from Georgia, where polls closed at 7:00 p.m. CNN reports the exit polls, and they did it again.

The Democratic exit poll asks the standard questions about church attendance (where Barack Obama swept the board among those who attend more than weekly, weekly, monthly, a few times a year, or never), and about religion (Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, other, or none-where Obama also won all categories). In the Republican exit poll, they asked the same two questions, but then also asked whether the person was a "born-again or evangelical Christian").

I've also just looked at the exit polls from Arkansas and Tennessee – same thing. I'm assuming they use the same exit poll in every state, so once again, the media finds it unimportant to ask Democratic voters if they are evangelicals. Maybe they are afraid to because it would probably demolish their received wisdom that all evangelicals are Republicans.

 

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i'm watching msnbc, and they are running their breakdowns of the kinds of the voters. they did a break down of voters who called themselves 'evangelical' . and the number 1 reason that voters went with a particular candidate was on 'values'.

it would be worth an article to follow up Jim's 'born again voters up for grabs' and call it 'born again values up for grabs'

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"Maybe they are afraid to because it would probably demolish their received wisdom..."

I am not so generous. It would demolish their current storyline. They know the truth. They simply don't speak it.

It is a lie.

And that becomes my identical concern for the honest use of statistics in earlier column this week re: Barna research on born again voters.

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