"I intend to focus the assignment mainly in Crawford; more particularly, to focus upon the Democrat challenge in 'Bush country'. "
Mayber he should change his focus.
How about talking to some Republicans? His plan looks like a pretty one sided presentation to me.
What is he going to do, talk to two Democrats in Texas and make it sound, as if Texas and Crawford is full of anti-Bush activists?
I live in Midland and attend what-used-to-be Bush's non-denominational Bible study (CBS), which is held at a large Presb. church.
The group is (like Midland) largely made up of engineers, accountants, a good handful of lawyers and doctors, and then normal oil workers of different stripes, most of whom have a college education.
It is very normal, goes through a chapter of the Bible at a time, reads the plain language there, and, when opinions differ (e.g., predestination), gives the different viewpoints and each person makes up their own mind.
Well, a group of German reporters came out, found the two or three wackos in a group of 600 men, quoted people out of context, and made Bush look like he handled snakes . . . which is presumably the story they had written before leaving Germany.