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Frodo
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« on: August 22, 2012, 05:02:27 PM »
« edited: August 22, 2012, 05:17:09 PM by Frodo »

If you look at polling on the issues of God, Gays and Guns, the country is moving to the Dem side.

I beg to differ.

As far as guns are concerned (according to the Washington Post poll linked here), the movement over the past twenty years or so has been towards less support for gun control, not more.  The percentages opposing additional gun control measures has gone up from around a third to nearly half.  

And with regard to abortion (somewhat related to the God-portion of your argument), according to other polls, those who support abortion rights are now outnumbered by those who oppose them -a stark contrast with the mid-1990s:


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