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By Dana Milbank
Washington Post<\/p>\n

The movement of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson has been in decline for some time, but recent events suggest that they are wandering in the political wilderness.<\/p>\n

A fresh symptom of the trouble came this month during the meeting of 150 evangelical leaders in Texas, where the deeply divided deacons of the religious right had to take three votes before opting to endorse Rick Santorum, who has no real chance of winning the Republican presidential nomination.<\/p>\n

Richard Land, a top figure in the Southern Baptist Convention, explained to NPR the choice of Santorum over Mitt Romney this way: \u201cBefore we marry the guy next door, don\u2019t you think we ought to have a fling with a tall, dark stranger and see if he can support us in the manner to which we\u2019d like to be accustomed?\u201d
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