<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 6/6/2004 8:01:43 AM Eastern Standard Time, mpollak@panix.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>1. Most progressives are religious. For example, in 2000, 81 percent of<BR>Gore voters professed a religious affiliation. That's within shouting<BR>distance of the 89 percent of Bush voters who professed a religious<BR>affiliation (2000 NSRP).<BR><BR>2. It is true that progressives attend church less frequently than<BR>conservatives. In the 2000 Voter News Service (VNS) exit poll, 33 percent<BR>of Gore voters said that they attended church once a week or more,<BR>compared to 49 percent of Bush voters who said that they attended church<BR>that often. (Note that both figures are probably too high-VNS data show<BR>levels of attendance that are inconsistent with all other data sources-but<BR>the magnitude of attendance difference between Gore and Bush voters is<BR>probably about right.)</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV>Is he defining "progressive as voting for Gore?  That seems a faulty assumption.</DIV></BODY></HTML>