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October 20, 2006
Evangelicals Ditching the GOP?
Allah has the polls. I have to take this opportunity to say that Hot Air is becoming an outstanding news aggregator. I wrote a long comment on that thread, and wanted to expand my thoughts here.
I think this poll may be skewed, but I believe it shows a trend. I think some evangelicals are tired of the GOP, and it's for a very simple reason - a lot of evangelical voters are political neophytes.
A lot of bloggers and blog junkies who happen to be evangelicals plan on voting, we’re also mostly political geeks who groove on this stuff. Not exactly a representative sample of American evangelicals. Many evangelical voters have only two basic issues they care about - gays and abortion - and many feel the GOP hasn’t done enough about either of them. Especially the issue of homosexuality, which for some reason evangelicals are darn near pathological about.
Unfortunately, a lot of evangelicals believe if they have a list of ten demands, Republicans they elect should do all ten. They don’t see the value in getting five, so they become discouraged by politics and stay home. It’s a classic conflict between faith - which is uncompromising, and politics, which is built on compromise. Evangelical voters see any attempt to compromise (e.g. civil unions) as a betrayal of core principles rather than a way to prevent legislation that is even more contrary to their values.
Some evangelicals have suggested creating a political party based on "Christian values" is the only way to ensure evangelical values are represented in the political arena. I think that's a great idea - if evangelicals never, ever want to win an election again.
Posted by slublog at October 20, 2006 12:04 AM
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I am an evangelical voter. I am sorry for "dissing" AP, but if you have seen any of his threads that have anything to do with Christianity, you will see that his own views are rather skewed.
I know other Christians and they DO indeed plan on voting and from what I have heard, it will not be democratic votes they cast.
It appears that the press and even some bloggers are doing all they can to discourage or weaken the evangelicals voting power.
I can only pray that they do not succeed.
Posted by: Melissa In Texas at October 21, 2006 11:29 AM
Back in the day when I first attained the right to vote at 18 yrs of age, I registered as Independent. I used to vote for whomever I thought was the best canidate. Around 1976 I registered Republican. Shortly after that I began to vote straight party tickets, because I just couldn't stand the thought of putting ONE more member on the opposing team; they were just too out of touch with my beliefs.
Yep, I'm a Christian. And for what it's worth, I think I've sent more money this year to *conservative* candidates, national wide, than I have given to God. Why? Because, I believe without opposition to the current liberal politicians in America, GOD will be erased all together from US society. It is the Liberal intention. I will ALWAYS vote, even if it is for the lesser of evils. It just makes sense.
Posted by: J. Hughes at October 22, 2006 12:00 PM