What if the Democratic nominee for president waged an historic campaign for evangelical votes, the Republican nominee was surprisingly tone deaf to evangelical political concerns, a pile of polls showed evangelicals were less beholden to Republicans and their issues than they were at any point in the Bush administration--and evangelicals still supported the Republican nominee by huge margins in November. Spiritual Politics' Mark Silk points to a new Rasmussen poll suggesting such an eventuality:
Obama leads 59% to 35% among those who rarely, never, or occasionally attend Church or other religious services. Among those who attend services at least a couple of times a month, McCain leads 56% to 37%. McCain leads 69% to 28% among Evangelical Christians.
What would happen to all the Democrats' new evangelical outreach programs if such a lopsided result comes to pass?
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Well, it makes sense if you consider that the Evangelicals have a choice between someone who may at least pay lip service to them while practically ignoring them and someone who will simply ignore them when in office.
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