Unemployment, and so on

[eppie]

Yes?

I'm pretty sure he means that the rest of the world (1st world countries - do I have to clarify that?) don't place nearly the emphasis on abortion and gay rights issues as the US does. There are more important things to campaign on.

Also in the Netherlands these are often not very important issues, but it is a fact that a significant part of CDA voters (a party that is economically center but has a christian background) do this because of a more conservative view on abortion and gay rights etc. (even though the real conservatives vote for smaller christian parties.....but which in total are still around 3 to 4 % of the voters). Of course with an increasing number of Muslim immigrants the old christian values become more popular again (a reasonable number of Muslim voters votes on christian parties because they are closest to their ideas).