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POPSSigns of ideological rigor mortis are showing in religious right "Headlines pronounced, "Faith, Values Fuel Win" and "Moral Values Drove Bush Victory." It was the morals, stupid. It was the culture wars, dummy. This notion was driven by exit polls that let voters pick Iraq, the economy or moral values as their No. 1 issue. Anyone who considered war to be a moral issue was ignored. Anyone who wasn't a member of the anti-abortion, anti-gay, fundamentalist right was, literally, de-valued. Two years later, despair over the war and dismay about scandals had widened the moral agenda. And Democrats had narrowed the so-called God gap."