In browsing responses to this item posted here prior to the election, I saw little mention of moral values as the most important issue and presumably what voters would base their choice on November 2nd. More than 20% of Americans, according to exit polling, cast their vote based on moral, or so-called wedge issues (i.e. abortion and gay marriage/rights). While I see the importance of such issues to many, in the context of what is going on in the world today, it baffles me that those issues had such enormous influence on the results of the election. At a time of war, I'm sorry, our nation's security and economic prosperity should most definitely be a more important issue than gay marriage and abortion, and those that exploited such issues on both sides are to blame, but conservative Republicans especially worked hard to wedge these issues into an election that should have been about the fight against terrorism and the war in Iraq. In my opinion, people should wake up and stop voting their conscience and start voting their brain.
