Manuel Miranda, a conservative legal activist who was forced to resign from his position in the Senate after improperly accessing Democratic staff memos, repeats the myth that "moral issues" voters were the key factor in 2004:
Then came 2003 and 2004, and another 10 judicial filibusters. Last November, Republican Senate candidates swept the South, ousted Tom Daschle, and won by bringing out "moral-issues" voters, all concerned by the matter of judges.
But as I've pointed out before, this is not true -- a flawed exit poll question drastically exaggerated the importance of "moral values" for voters. The number of evangelical voters did not increase from 2000, and open-response questions about priorities did not receive nearly as many answers concerning "moral values" as did the flawed question.
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