http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x974607Saying "this will be the last presidential campaign I'll ever do," Bush strategist Karl Rove sat down with reporters Tuesday and offered his take on the election victory that he helped to forge, attributing the president's re-election to a handful of big issues and to Bush's "personal attributes" as a leader.
Rove also had this diagnosis of the Democrats' defeat, one shared by some members of that party: "I'm not sure the Democrats ever were able to, in this campaign, offer a concise and clear image of where they wanted to take the country."
Speaking over lunch to a few dozen journalists, Rove said cultural issues and evangelical voters played an important role in Bush's victory but said "this is a broader and more subtle issue" than some have suggested.
Rove noted that exit polls showed no rise in the share of voters in 2004 who attended church one or more times each week. He also said that while about a fifth of voters cited "moral values" as the key to their vote, it's difficult to compare that to 2000 since that choice wasn't offered voters in the exit polls. http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/special_packages/... Cynics all!