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Right-Wing Class Warfare Swung the 2004 Election

The Village Voice | November 9, 2004

The idea that last week's election results show that there is a great silent majority of Americans who vote first and foremost on their moral values is nonsense. What put Bush over the top is the wealth.

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Tags: George W. Bush, election postmortem, Diebolds, reforming tax code, Richard M. Nixon, strengthening Social Security

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George W. Bush is getting four more years to remake the world in his image. (Too bad for us, he already started.)

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The Village Voice | Rick Perlstein | 11-03-2004 | Politics

Tags: election postmortem, Christians, Focus on the Family, Minister James Dobson, Senator Edward M. Kennedy

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