By SN
Saturday June 7, 2008
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Huffington Post – June 6, 2008 via beliefnet.com:
In a new interview with Dan Gilgoff for BeliefNet’s God-o-Meter, DeMoss explains the lack of religious enthusiasm for McCain and predicts a potential major shift to Obama.
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This is one guy’s perspective, but I am surprised by how little I’ve seen or read in conservative circles about McCain since February. I don’t think I’ve gotten one email or letter or phone call from anybody in America in the last four months saying anything about this election or urging that we unite behind John McCain and put aside whatever differences we have. Back in the fall and winter, you’d get several things a day from conservatives saying, “The future of the Supreme Court is at stake. We have to stop Hillary Clinton. Get behind so and so–or don’t’ go with this guy.” It’s just very quiet.
If one third of white evangelicals voted for Bill Clinton the second time, at the height of Monica Lewinsky mess–that’s a statistic I didn’t believe at first but I double and triple checked it–I would not be surprised if that many or more voted for Barack Obama in this election. You’re seeing some movement among evangelicals as the term [evangelical] has become more pejorative. There’s a reaction among some evangelicals to swing out to the left in an effort to prove that evangelicals are really not that right wing. There’s some concern that maybe Republicans haven’t done that well. And there’s this fascination with Barack Obama. So I will not be surprised if he gets one third of the evangelical vote. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was 40-percent.
In the comments, Jägermeister mentioned this graph and article supporting the same conclusion, Evangelical Christians love Obama!:
This rhetorical question needs to be asked: If Right leaning evangelicals love Obama and hate Hillary, how does this affect her chances to be VP?
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#30
“You’re one of the good ones.” lol
I’m just messin’ with you Mr Mustard. Religionist to me is a zealot. That is usually what I’m implying anyway. I admit that not all people with faith are zealots.
The republican party sure does take advantage of those wedge issues. I’m sure the outrage over abortion and gays will reach a fever pitch among the neocons before the election. They will use FUD to prevent more of the flock from straying to Obama.
#1 Yes. Tommy Douglas, who was voted by TV viewers as the Greatest Canadian (possible oxymoron noted) ever, was a Baptist preacher before he became the Father of Socialized Medicine in Canada. His predecessor, J.S. Woodsworth, was also a prairie boy and a minister, but a Methodist minister. Does that count? Are Methodists evangelicals?
Ya’ gotta love Saskatchewan, too.
OTOH, many prairie evangelical politicians were social conservatives, for example Aberhardt, E.C. Manning, Preston Manning, W.A.C. Bennett …
If Christians believe in the New Testament idea that if you have two coats, you should give one to somebody who doesn’t have any; but that the government shouldn’t do it for you, then I foresee that idea being put to the test a lot in the near future, even here in North America.
#25 QBsaid:
You say:
“I think it’s sad that a Christian like you must define themselves in narrow terms around abortion, prayer in schools, and gay marriage. It seems like a loss of religious freedom to me.”
Now, that’s hardly fair! I was responding to bobbo, who asked what I thought of those issues. You read it and made an assumption that that’s how I define my Christianity, which is so far from the truth as to make the assumption breathtaking to me.
I most certainly don’t “define” it that way. But those views that I expressed do arise out of my desire to be a Christ follower.
>>but I don’t support making my values the
>>LAW that everyone else must follow
Sure you do, Bobbolina. You support the passage of clearly unconstitutional homophobic laws just because the idea of gay marriage creeps you out.
Give it up, son. You’ve been **BUSTED** on that one.
kim said: “Now, that’s hardly fair!”
No it isn’t and I apologize if I struck a wrong chord.
When did Bobbo say he supports laws like that?
I think he only said he didn’t want the courts making law, but some people prefer it that way.
>>When did Bobbo say he supports laws like that?
>>I think he only said he didn’t want the courts
>>making law, but some people prefer it that way.
Are you tawkin’ to me, Lyin’ Mike? If so, I believe you’re referring to Bobbolina’s outrage over the Supreme Court of California determining that the homophobic, hatemongering, unconstitutional tenets of Proposition 22 were homophobic, hatemongering, and unconstitutional.
Knock off the “courts making law” fiction, will you? The courts were doing exactly what they should have been doing, ruling on the constitutionality of hate laws.
Personally I wouldn’t want this guy’s vote: http://tinyurl.com/3uvjpo
#4 at least someone is paying attention… this notion is a friggin’ joke.
@#4
Reverend Wright isn’t the reason anything will happen in this election.
There were a number of people that were going to be against Obama but lacked a reason because it he was too new and were not familiar enough with him to know of a reason.
Had Reverend Wright not surfaced, some other reason would have been substituted.
Ironically, Reverend Wright will probably serve as a red herring to deflect organized and reasoned opposition to Obama, which may help him get elected.
Many that will use the Reverend Wright reason to vote for McCain wouldn’t be voting for a Democrat under any circumstance, or for a smaller segment, would not vote for an African American.
Obama theoretically should benefit because for issue-oriented swing voters, the Reverend Wright association won’t resonate because they will be voting on issues of substance and the Reverend Wright issue tends to short-circuit intelligent discussion.
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Will feminists dump Obama for McCain?
#43 – I hadn’t given that much thought to the big, burly bitches.
>>I hadn’t given that much thought to
>>the big, burly bitches.
I prefer the lipstick variety. I guess that’s the difference between Mustard and Ketchup, hm?