I want to spend a little – no, a lot – more quality time with the exit poll pages on cnn.com, but on light perusal, my belief that in order to win, political parties need to appeal to unmarried voters (about 1/3 of the electorate) certainly held true this past Tuesday.
In fact, I can’t recall a single race in which that ridiculous phrase, “family values”, was even uttered, let alone made a core campaign issue.
What a difference from 2000 and 2004.
Let’s hope this particular divisive, misleading tactical misuse of the language has finally died a well-deserved death.