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CIAO DATE: 07/05

Why Did Kerry Lose? Answer: It Wasn't "Values"

On the Issue
November 2004

James Q. Wilson

The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

Abstract

Post-election analysis has focused on the importance of "moral values" in the presidential campaign, yet a closer examination of the numbers reveals that a variety of issues and the success of organizational strategies in both parties played a bigger role in the outcome.

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