No Dan, Republicans aren't suddenly dominated by evangelical Christians.
All that has happened is that the age old formula for getting elected was changed by two great men: President Bush and Karl Rove.
Prior to GWB and KR entering the national political scene, the common political wisdom was that to win the Presidency, you had to win at least one state of the great California/New York political power pair.
And to win either of those states meant that Presidential candidates had to appeal to the hyper-left-wing radicals that dominate the political machines in both states (e.g. gays, leftists, internationalists, unions, etc.).
But GWB and KR changed *all* of that. They said that you could win the Presidency WITHOUT WINNING New York or California.
Well, that changes everything. To win enough electoral votes for the Presidency without carrying California or New York means that you have to listen to what Joe Pickup has to say in Alabama and Kansas and Texas and Florida, et al., not what the same 200 liberal elites are gabbing about at cocktail parties in Manhattan and San Francisco.
And that's why the Republican Party of 2005 is both different as well as successful. Republicans own the House, control the Senate, hold the Presidency, occupy most state governorships, and dominate most state legislatures now.
By the way, we won't hold that much political power for long if we go back to the old days of competing with Democrats for kudos and sham articles spewed forth by the Manhattan cocktail circuit crowd.
...And *that* would be a tragedy, as the only way that we are going to see out-of-control judges reined in is if the Republican Party gains another 5 or so Senate seats while maintaining or gaining in all other categories. We are close to where we need to be; to retreat back to the days of playing nice to the cocktail and bathhouse crowd when we are *so* very, very close to taking back this great land would be a tragedy that might very well cost Freedom another 4 decades or more in purgatory.