Culture War Watch: Survey Says Edition
Happy Valentine’s Day Culture War Watchers!
While recovering from your chocolate coma you can check out what’s going on this week in the no-love-lost battle between the Common Do-Gooders and the Culture Warriors.
NEW SURVEY: 100% of Culture War Watch Bloggers want Major Medias Outlets to Fix Their Exit Polls Readers of this blog will know that the exit polling during the primaries has consistently stereotyped Evangelical voters as the sole political property of the Republican party. This really bothers Culture War Watch. Thankfully, Faith in Public Life teamed up the the Center for American Progress Action Fund and took matters into our own hands. Our polls in Missouri and Tennessee demonstrated that there was indeed a sizable contingent of Evangelicals, and people of all faiths, voting for both Democratic and Republican candidates. The story is making its way around in state and national media. Apparently, reporters find complete information useful while writing stories. Who’d have thunk?
Richard Land…liberal? Culture War Watch is ever so pleased to see that Dr. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention is encouraging Americans to “rely on their values — and not their pocketbook — when choosing their elected representatives.” What a great commitment to move beyond narrow self-interest to investment in the common good…like protecting the environment and ending poverty and… Oh wait…that doesn’t seem to be at all what he meant. Nevermind.
Dept. of Sadly, this is Not a Joke: Bill Keller fashion plate and administrator of votingforsatan.com is claiming credit for Mitt Romney’s recent departure from the presidential race. His “a vote for Romney is a vote for Satan” site launched shortly before Gov. Romney called it quits. To sane people, this would seem like a coincidence, but to Keller this is victory. (Keller, you see, is logic-challenged. The votingforsatan.com site claims it is “in no way meant to tell people who to or who not to vote for.” Leading one to conclude either 1) if Satan was indeed to form some kind of “Satan/Beelzebub ’08″ third party campaign Keller would not discourage people from voting for him or 2) Keller is nuts). Anyway, votingforsatan.com now proudly proclaims, “Bill Keller being credited by many for helping to end
Romney’s bid for the White House.” Quite a trick, especially when he wasn’t trying to tell anyone who to vote for. Keller, however, doesn’t give examples of who any of these “many” might be. Culture War Watch has no idea why…
The Scorecard: With old culture warriors like Keller grasping at straws to stay relevant, this week goes to the Common Do-Gooders. Polls show them sweeping every demographic.