The Daily Howler - 10/13/05

AS THE DEAN SLEEPS! David Broder, snoring loudly, headlines a dumb, addled press corps: // link // print // previous // next //

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2005

AS THE DEAN SLEEPS: We never cease to be amazed by the way our mainstream press corps “reasons.” This morning, The Dean brought our analysts out of their chairs with these data from Kamarck and Galston’s new report:

BRODER (10/13/05): The perception that Democrats are weak on confronting terrorism and hostile to the culture of the deeply religious has cost the party dearly, especially among married women and Catholics. Galston and Kamarck calculate that the odds of a married woman supporting the Republican candidate rose from just under 40 percent in 1992 to nearly 55 percent last year. Clinton, a Baptist, carried the Catholic vote by nine points in 1992, while John Kerry, a Catholic, lost among his co-religionists by five points.

We’re generally sympathetic to Karmarck and Galston, but what’s up with that puzzling, highlighted claim?