Thought
Evangelicals are early deciders.
(WaPo: Evangelical leaders "are surprised and dismayed to see a liberal-minded politician attempting to conscript their troops.")
(WaPo: Evangelical leaders "are surprised and dismayed to see a liberal-minded politician attempting to conscript their troops.")
posted by mikevotes at
5:44 AM
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I've seen and heard reports for over a year now describing how evangelicals are peeling away from the GOP. Mostly it breaks down along age, with younger evangelicals siding more towards 'social justice' and older folks sticking with 'moral values'. Older voters show really huge inertia in their voting patterns, so they stick with the GOP because they've always stuck with the GOP and not because they're crazy about it.
Of course, Huckabee accelerated this phenomenon by proving that evangelicals are very much the junior partners in the GOP who should stay quiet and vote as they are told.
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Todd Dugdale , at 1:34 PM
Yeah, and I'm not so sure I buy the idea that this would be anything too significant.
Chipping in at the margins, I would guess.
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mikevotes, at 3:22 PM
The main thing I've always come away with on the subject is that the evangelicals are not the future of the GOP, especially with most of the defections being the younger people.
Also, there is a difference between voting for a Party "by default", and being enthusiastic enough to volunteer or make donations.
Long term isn't bright.
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Todd Dugdale , at 4:55 PM
Evangelicalism is alot like country music. We'll never be fully rid of it, but it will ebb and flow as a fashion of sorts out of a permanent reservoir.
And the lack of enthusiasm is, I think, the key in this campaign.
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mikevotes, at 9:15 PM
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