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Evangelicals Say They Led Charge For the GOP [GOTV effort = 79% Evangelical, 52% Catholic to Bush]
Washington Post ^
| Nov 8, 2004
| Alan Cooperman and Thomas B. Edsall
Posted on 11/08/2004 9:22:16 AM PST by Mike Fieschko
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Rest of article covers motivating factors, a little history of Massachusetts homosexual marriage selection, Michigan GOP abandonment of bill banning homosexual marriage, Karl Rove or Tim Goeglein, head of the White House Office of Public Liaison meeting with Rev. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention, psychologist James C. Dobson or others from the Colorado-based Focus on the Family, and Charles Colson.
To: Mike Fieschko
I've never been as proud of my usually dem-leaning fellow Catholics as today.
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posted on
11/08/2004 9:25:17 AM PST
by
pissant
To: Mike Fieschko
"....79% Evangelical....to Bush"
Only 79%? - That means when we look around us at church 2 out of 10 supported Kerry - ouch.
We'll work on that for '06.
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posted on
11/08/2004 9:28:09 AM PST
by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
To: Mike Fieschko
Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the conservative American Center for Law and Justice, advised in mailings to 45,000 churches that their clergy should avoid endorsing a candidate by name from the pulpit. Other than that, "we told them they were absolutely free and should encourage their people to vote their convictions," he said. Here is the key difference in how liberals have approached the "values" issue.
Bush didn't go into pulpits weekends before election day and preach about his values, he lived them.
Evangelicals don't want a politician in the pulpit, we wants preachers who draw the lines on good and evil starkly and biblically.
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posted on
11/08/2004 9:34:00 AM PST
by
WoodstockCat
(W2 !!! Four more Years!!)
To: Psalm 73
Would someone please tell me why these same Evangelicals didn't support GWB in 2000? The gay marriage issue was more powerful than the reason to beat Al Gore.
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posted on
11/08/2004 9:35:15 AM PST
by
sarasotarepublican
(Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.)
To: sarasotarepublican
There are many reports in the media that no more evangelicals voted this time than the last time.
Don't know if that is true or not, but keep in mind this article cites percentages without raw numbers.
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posted on
11/08/2004 9:37:34 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(PRAY FOR POWERS EQUAL TO THE TASKS)
To: OldFriend
I can't get over how completely and totally intolerant the Democrats have become. Many of them are filled with hate, many others are filled with anger and contempt.
And for no good reason that I can see.
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posted on
11/08/2004 9:42:27 AM PST
by
Sam Cree
(Democrats are herd animals)
To: OldFriend
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posted on
11/08/2004 9:51:15 AM PST
by
Mike Fieschko
(It's not a nail in the coffin. It's a mountain of nails with a coffin at the bottom.)
To: Psalm 73
A friend told me she talked with some Christians who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and they were very soft on Bush - seemed to be very influenced by the liberalness of the whole area, buying into the arguments against him. You will probably find that most of the evangelicals that voted for Kerry came from the larger cities.
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posted on
11/08/2004 10:00:54 AM PST
by
repubmom
To: sarasotarepublican
Gladly!
You and I are actively involved in political life ... not so of most people. GWB was not a "unknown" entity to a lot of Evangelicals, and his Father, was not known as a bastion of conservatism!
This time EVERYONE knew where W stood! Love him or hate him ... love his stances or hate his stances ... you KNEW where he stood!! And most Evangelicals loved where he stood on many moral issues!
To: Preacher777
Thank you for the information. I didn't take Bush 41 into consideration.
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posted on
11/08/2004 10:09:05 AM PST
by
sarasotarepublican
(Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.)
To: Mike Fieschko; pissant; american colleen; sinkspur; Lady In Blue; Salvation; narses; ...
Catholic Ping - please freepmail me if you want on/off this list
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posted on
11/08/2004 10:10:17 AM PST
by
NYer
("Blessed be He who by His love has given life to all." - final prayer of St. Charbel)
To: Mike Fieschko
James Dobson is Focus on the Family. A great man, full of wisdom for raising children.
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posted on
11/08/2004 10:14:26 AM PST
by
Coldwater Creek
('We voted like we prayed")
To: Mike Fieschko
I absolutely guarantee that more evangelicals voted in this election than in 2000. I have no direct data yet, but I've been involved with some GOTV on the ground, and I've never seen anything like the level of awareness and arousal amongst evangelicals to vote.
To: WoodstockCat
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posted on
11/08/2004 10:15:39 AM PST
by
Coldwater Creek
('We voted like we prayed")
To: sarasotarepublican
Apathy
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posted on
11/08/2004 10:16:45 AM PST
by
Coldwater Creek
('We voted like we prayed")
To: OldFriend
I would bet that way more Evangelicals voted this time than 2000. I go to a mega church and for several weeks there were voter registration forms in the bulletin. Also, I believe that 9/11 changed a lot of people.
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posted on
11/08/2004 10:20:38 AM PST
by
Coldwater Creek
('We voted like we prayed")
To: mariabush
Instinct tells me you are right and frankly, I don't see how we are ever going to get a true independent analysis.
I truly believe that good defeated evil.
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posted on
11/08/2004 10:41:44 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(PRAY FOR POWERS EQUAL TO THE TASKS)
To: Mike Fieschko
52% of Catholic voters went to Bush? Isn't that huge? Does anyone have the numbers for Catholics for past several elections?
Might lead one to ask why. One theory might be Kerry's mom's buzzword: integrity. It's one thing for a politician to take a position that a voter disagrees with, but the voter can still support him if the balance of their positions is sound.
But when John Kerry asked Catholic, presumably largely democrat, voters to believe that he was pro-life, that may have pushed their credibility (gullibility?) to the limit.
I mean, come on...John Kerry pro-life? I would sooner expect to see Hitler in a yarmulke.
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posted on
11/08/2004 11:02:16 AM PST
by
truecons
To: Preacher777
"....and his Father, was not known as a bastion of conservatism!"
Well said. I think his father is (little "c") christian, but W is a (big "C") Christian.
A big difference.
BTW - I was a Reagan supporter, but didn't vote for Bush Sr. - and I didn't vote for W in the 2000 primaries but I did (finally) warm up to him and worked darned hard for him in 2000.
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posted on
11/08/2004 11:46:29 AM PST
by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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