The revolution might just be exaggerated...

Via Atrios, this fascinating bit about the real or imagined "values vote":

The mainstream press, itself in love with the "moral values" story line and traumatized by the visual exaggerations of the red-blue map, is too cowed to challenge the likes of the American Family Association. So are politicians of both parties. It took a British publication, The Economist, to point out that the percentage of American voters citing moral and ethical values as their prime concern is actually down from 2000 (35 percent) and 1996 (40 percent).

The complete article by Frank Rich at the NYTimes includes interesting speculation about the football/Housewives scandal (and whether it was manufactured considerably after the fact by a few operatives on the right).