"The election wasn't about moral values, @$$#0/3."

First of all, in these polls, etc. "moral values" is code for "religious voters." The fact is that the Democratic party base and heirarchy is secular. Aside from black people, the most predictably Democratic voting bloc is people who go to church "seldom or never", something like 70-30. And the most predictably Republican bloc is people who go to church at least once a week, something like 60-40. (Factor out the large black weekly churchgoing population, and the numbers for white regular churchgoers go closer to 70-30.) As churchgoing increases, Republican voting increases.

This isn't something that I especially like, but it's a political fact that Democrats have to figure out a way to grapple with. Remember, since 1964, the only Democrats to win the Presidency have been two southern, born-again Christians. Through the last twenty to thirty years, Democratic numbers among Catholics and working-class evangelicals have nose-dived.