Coach Kevin is exaggerating a bit his point. There is part of me that FEELS the irritation of two boys in white shirts, tie, on bicycles telling me that they are Elders of the Mormon church, and you get hammered with the Joseph Smith stuff, it obviously did repel a few people. But by and large, most evangelicals stepped into the batters box and took a swing. What was missing, was the backslidden, honky tonk sinning Christian crowd....who says they are Christian, but were fence riders. Coach Kevin, consider that 92% of the vote for Obama was Christian blacks, while their black pastors urged them to vote against a candidate that proposed same sex marraige. Or that 76% of the vote was Hispanic, with their Catholic bishops asking them to NOT vote for a candidate that proposed abortion. The ELECTORATE my dear Coach Kevin has changed. But the Republican National Committee needs to get a canidate that can fire up the BASE, and the base is conservative values. I remember all 8 candidates in the primary had a battlecry, ANYONE BUY ROMNEY... and big guns steered the ship into the National Convention, and carefully weeded out Sara Palin and her gang. This did not help.
That’s the impression that I have also.