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Letters to the Editor
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From: Howard Schuman
The article "Voters and Values in the 2004 Election," by Gary Langer and Jon Cohen (POQ 69:74459), interweaves two arguments. The authors substantive argument is that it was a mistake to attribute George W. Bushs 2004 victory to the high percentage (22 percent) of voters who selected "moral values" on a much-cited closed question in the National Election Pool (NEP) exit poll about the issue that mattered most to respondents in deciding how to vote. Langer and Cohens methodological argument is that it was a serious error to include "moral values" as one of seven possible answers