It baffles me that so many posters here are so flamingly liberal

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I am trying to answer the question: are conservative more likely to support gambling than liberals? To answer this, I have to make generalizations. I also have to define who makes up the group "Conservatives". I have included "Christian Conservatives" as conservatives. I think most Christian Conservatives would oppose gambling more often than not, certainly more than the average person. I also think that Christian Conservatives probably make up over half of those people who identify themselves as Conservative. Since such a large percentage of Conservatives are of the "Christian" variety, and since such a large percentage of these Chistians oppose gambling, I have concluded that conservatives are more likely to oppose gambling as compared to liberals since liberals have no large subset (ie. Union member, academia, civil rights activist) I can think of that would oppose gambling.

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For instance you'll find prominent Republicans that generally support Roe v. Wade and Gay Marriage. You'll find prominent Democrats that support the Iraq war.

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Yes. But if I was trying to see whether a liberal or a conservative is more likely to support gay marriage or the war...I would say conservative are more likely to oppose gay marriage. I would say liberals oppose the war more than conservatives. At some level of discourse, this seems to me to be obviously true.