If it is true that the public's electoral choices are a cry for more morally driven programming, the network executives ask, why are so many people, even in the markets surrounding the Bush bastions Atlanta and Salt Lake City, watching a sex-drenched television drama? In the greater Atlanta market, reaching more than two million households, "Desperate Housewives" is the top-rated show. Nearly 58 percent of the voters in those counties voted for President Bush. The password is ... "Vicarious." Gary Schneeberger of Focus on the Family, an influential evangelical Protestant group, said that "History has shown that even people who could be described as Values Voters Are Prone To Sinful Behavior and watching representations of sinful behavior. Is it shocking that people would be enticed by it? It's not shocking, but it is tragic." If you recall, that is precisely the logic I laid out a week ago, in response to Frank Rich's column in the Sunday NYT. Mr. Schneeberger said he was encouraged by the criticism heaped on ABC last week for using a sexed-up opening for its "Monday Night Football" coverage. Ha! "Sexed-up!" Nicolette Sheridan's WMDs are real, baby, and they're spectacular. (Or something.) 'Values' Voters Still Like Their Television Sin | 
