Values voters.
Leonard Steinhorn believes Democrats need not worry about the “values voters.” Younger voters lean Democratic on social issues. The more time passes, the more values issues will favor Democrats. (*)
Fred Barnes’s analysis diverges, however. His Republican heart warms to signs that a grand realignment has begun toward conservative social mores. (†) Mirror.
If it bears out, what Barnes observes would nullify the current Democratic youth demographic advantage among values voters.
For years, the Democratic Party hung on despite voters favoring the GOP on foreign affairs and the military. The Dems were on the majority side of social issues, from affirmative action to abortion. Now those healthy Dem margins have slipped. In the future they look uncertain at best.
If the Democratic advantage on social issues fully slips away, the Dems will lack a cachet, a narrative, a single big reason for people to vote for them.
Unless something changes, we are seeing the decline and fall of the Democratic Party.
October 7th, 2005 at 07:34
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