What's the Message

I am curious about the election that just finished. I admit I don't generally follow politics real closely so I may have missed a few things along the way that may actually answer my questions. Still, I'll throw this out there any way...

Leading up to the election when ever I checked in on the things all I ever heard the presidential candidates talk about was Iraq. When I looked at the papers briefly following the election I saw that the exit polls indicated that those who voted for Bush made their decision based on moral values. What did I miss here? Where did the candidates show their moral values? When did war become the soul determinant of moral values?

I would like to think that it's a good thing that people are making decisions based on moral values, but do we really know what they are any more? Where is our societies compass? We have shows like "The Biggest Loser" and we say it's good because people are losing weight. Or is the show on to make fun of these fat people? We have people taking novels like "The Davinci Code" to be proclaiming religious truths? Where is our moral compass?

When we put these things together I wonder what sort of message we should hear? What kind of message is being sent to the church? How will the church, and church leaders, respond? Society wants to act based upon moral values, but how will they be determined? How can we help people make moral decisions? Or have we changed how we make moral decisions? If we have changed, is it a change for the better?