Why Democrats Need Evangelicals

Significant numbers of Evangelicals vote Democratic

and a growing number of them are what I call persuadable.

It is a strange and wondrous time for Evangelicals and the
Democratic Party.  On the one hand the
poobahs of the Religious Right are desperately trying to prop up the myth that
all Evangelicals are Republicans.  On the
other hand there are Democrats who think that Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and
James Dobson speak for all Evangelicals. 
Part of my mission in this blog is to subvert these errors from time to
time.

The truth is significant numbers of Evangelicals vote Democratic
and a growing number of them are what I call persuadable.  (See my first blog entry).  If Democrats are going to win the White House
any time soon they are going to have to recover some of the Evangelicals (and
Roman Catholics) they have lost over the last two decades.  One reason for optimism can be found in an
article in The Washington Post by
their Pulitzer Prize winning writer Caryle Murphy.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/09/AR2006090901155.html