That's probably a true statistic. I guess when you're talking about hope for the future, though, mentioning religious throwbacks is a waste of time cause they won't be in it. The Democrats didn't mention terrorism because they aren't using fear to gin up votes. That has always been the MO of the right wing. Instead, they were focusing on the party and country coming together.
If you want to know why you should be very, very afraid, ask Trump or some other conservative demagogue. Everything they talk about is from the perspective of loss, decline and dread of the future. I mean, you hate to stereotype conservatives but they give you so much ammunition. It's as if they absolutely refuse to envision a future that is not mostly white, christian and isolationist, even though the trend is the exact opposite. They see the train coming to run them over rather than to take them to a better place. You can't fix stupid, however, so they will be what they are.
I feel sorry for those with a conservative orientation. If the blather that they greedily lap up is an indication of their emotional state, they are generally unstable. Whether it's Trump's wall or Cruz's cavalier call to "carpet bomb" syria, you begin to wonder if adults are at home or if the republican house has been left to some frightened children with a juvenile sexuality, a bigoted sense of world affairs and an insatiable greed.
I'm glad the Democrats didn't mention ISIS right away, like that's the most important thing, giving in to right-wing hysteria. After all, when we begin to abandon our American values and our hope for the future, out of fear of a few crazy muslim asshats, the terrorists, and other conservatives, win.