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In reply to the discussion: Why we lost the gun debate in the Senate, and why we'll keep losing it. [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)The politicians on both sides spend more time fundraising than anything else, they really don't have the opportunity to become true experts at more than maybe one or two subjects and most of the time not even that. Both sides shoot talking points back and forth and like it or not the Republicans are far more adept at creating and spouting talking points than are the Democrats.
Indeed, the Republicans have a major industry that does nothing but create and disseminate talking points for them, there really isn't something similar on the Democratic side.
All that aside, you are greatly underestimating the number of Americans who believe in young Earth creationism.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/20/40-of-americans-still-bel_n_799078.html