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New York Times Poll: Evangelicals Agree with Dr. Dobson
CitizenLink.com ^ | 10-8-2007 | Jennifer Mesko

Posted on 10/08/2007 5:17:30 PM PDT by monomaniac

New York Times Poll: Evangelicals Agree with Dr. Dobson

by Jennifer Mesko, associate editor

Majority only will support a presidential candidate who shares their values.

A New York Times/CBS News poll shows white, evangelical Republicans agree with Dr. James Dobson.

Nearly 60 percent of those who plan to vote in the primaries said they could not support a candidate they didn't agree with on issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage. Eighty-six percent said presidential candidates should be judged on both their political record and their personal life.

Dr. Dobson has taken a beating in the media for promising to vote only for a candidate who shares his basic values, even if that means supporting a third-party candidate.

Last week, he wrote an op-ed piece for The New York Times to clarify his position: "Speaking personally, and not for the organization I represent, I firmly believe that the selection of a president should begin with a recommitment to traditional moral values and beliefs. Those include the sanctity of human life, the institution of marriage, and other inviolable pro-family principles. Only after that determination is made can the acceptability of a nominee be assessed."

Rick Scarborough, president of Vision America, a Texas-based group that has a network of 5,000 pastors willing to mobilize their churches to vote, said evangelicals are not bluffing.

“I am not going to cast a sacred vote granted to me by the blood of millions of God-fearing Americans who died on the fields of battle for freedom, for a candidate who says it’s OK to kill the unborn,” he told The Times. “I just can’t.”


WATCH DR. DOBSON ON TV
Dr. James Dobson will be a guest on Hannity & Colmes on the Fox News Channel tonight at 9 ET. The program re-airs at midnight ET. He will offer his views, as a private citizen, on the 2008 presidential election.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Read Dr. Dobson's op-ed that ran in The New York Times last week.



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KEYWORDS: 2008; abortion; christianvote; dobson; duncanhunter; electionpresident; elections; evangelical; evangelicals; fred; fredthompson; hannity; hannityandcolmes; homosexualagenda; humanlife; killing; life; nyt; poll; prolife; religion; republicans; romney; rudy; samesexmarriage; thompson; unborn
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To: Mariner

No so-called Evangelical would EVER vote for a RAT, under any circumstance. If they do, they have no values. I don’t care if the RAT claims to be pro-life and pro-family. They aren’t or they wouldn’t be RATS and besides with the way the committees and leadership is structured a “prolife” RAT is of no value unless they’re in the minority. Don’t be fooled.


121 posted on 10/08/2007 7:26:41 PM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma (Democrats--Al Qaeda's best friends)
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To: SoCalPol

Really? I hadn’t heard that, not doubting you, just hadn’t heard it. How about Duncan Hunter? Guliani is just wrong on everything except the war.


122 posted on 10/08/2007 7:28:12 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: RedOhioan

Agree 100%.


123 posted on 10/08/2007 7:28:27 PM PDT by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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To: gondramB
But the primaries haven’t even started - this is the time to work instead of focusing on taking the ball and going home.

Very well stated. We're worrying about the general election when the primaries haven't happened. Of course, we work for the most conservative in the primaries but then become united in the general to defeat the evil RATS.

124 posted on 10/08/2007 7:28:45 PM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma (Democrats--Al Qaeda's best friends)
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To: af_vet_1981

You are emphatically free to vote for whomever you wish. Dobson would say the same thing. He doesn’t speak for others, and never has claimed to.

I’m voting for whichever Republican wins the primaries. And I respect Dobson a great deal — before and after the MSM attacks began. He’s a fine Christian man doing great ministry.


125 posted on 10/08/2007 7:29:25 PM PDT by Theo (Global warming "scientists." Pro-evolution "scientists." They're both wrong.)
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To: donna
A lot when he signed the Partial Birth Abortion Ban. He appointed 2 pro-life Supreme Court judges and a lot of pro-life federal judges.
126 posted on 10/08/2007 7:29:46 PM PDT by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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To: donna
“I can’t agree:”

Rush says so... Napolitano says so... Anne Coulter says so... Mark levins says so... Michael Barrone says so... Charles Krauthammer says so... and you show your ignorance on another defining subject.

LLS

127 posted on 10/08/2007 7:30:01 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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To: roses of sharon

In my opinion, Hannitys interview of FT smacks a bit of media manipulation. Sean knew that he was going to interview Dobson in the same week and pressed Ft to remark about Dobson. He never let that on in the interview. Then when he interviewed Dobson, he played the FT interview. He played it again tonight. Sean is obviously a Rudy supporter. Fred getting numbers wont work for his candidate and Dobson wont vote for Rudy. So why not rev up the divide between the two. I always got the feeling that Sean never did like FT.


128 posted on 10/08/2007 7:30:25 PM PDT by donnab (saving liberals brains....one moron at a time.)
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To: Don'tMessWithTexas
Dobson and other evangelical who bolt and cause the GOP to lose will become less not more relevant.

Very well stated.

129 posted on 10/08/2007 7:30:43 PM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma (Democrats--Al Qaeda's best friends)
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To: iowamark

I got a very bad feeling watching Dobson. He acts effeminate, ill at ease, overly defensive. Not someone I would trust.

I thought the total opposite. He seems to be a good man with his heart and head in the right place as far as the right candidate is concerned. However, I don’t support a third party as this will get satan elected.


130 posted on 10/08/2007 7:30:47 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: LibLieSlayer
Amen LLS. Still some people cannot see those simple facts about President Bush who is the most pro-life President in decades.
131 posted on 10/08/2007 7:32:01 PM PDT by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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To: Eagles6; dawn53; ejonesie22
Unfortunately that's the way the game is played and for the pro-life folks, it is life and death. Truly it has been death for 40-50 million Americans. They see that this may be the last time to have any sway to get abortion outlawed.

When if they looked with calmer eyes, they'd see that they could accomplish so much more if they embraced a guy who believes in overturning Roe v Wade and returning it to the states. But that's not good enough for them -- they won't support that!.

Hence either R -- the one that supports nationally funded abortion (Giuliani) and the one that would seek to destroy it nationwide (Romney?) loses. The mulishness of pro-lifers results in zero reduction of abortion rates and utterly fails to deal a meaningful smack to the wrong, sad value in American culture that abortion, let alone tax-funded, is a birthright (ironic!) for poor women and girls -- a smack upside the conscience that would eventually result if it went back to the states.

Such pro-lifers are so stuck on the egotistical thought that the party needs them, as opposed to the other way around, that they create an awful thing.

132 posted on 10/08/2007 7:33:24 PM PDT by Finny ( Only credulous saps buy man-caused global warming.)
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To: Lakeshark

Dobson may be wrong....BUT GOD IS SOVEREIGN.


133 posted on 10/08/2007 7:34:04 PM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine (This is a non-issue as Rudy won't get the nomination)
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To: seekthetruth
dobson also told Sean Friday that he would never back mccain. All he said was “there are other possibilities out there... we have time”. This was a third party threat. At least Bauer says dobson is wrong. Others will follow when they see how dobson’s fundage drops away. He will miss my monthly check... but so do the hacks at the RNC... til Amnesty mel is gone!

LLS

134 posted on 10/08/2007 7:35:11 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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To: mek1959

Thank you!


135 posted on 10/08/2007 7:35:13 PM PDT by Finny ( Only credulous saps buy man-caused global warming.)
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To: donna
Does he have something better to do?

National security, for one thing. Without a strong national defense and a strong offense against the Islamonazis, babies won't be the only people in danger of losing their lives. (We were babies once, too.)

It's also pro-life to be anti-terrorist.

136 posted on 10/08/2007 7:35:42 PM PDT by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again. And Always Act.)
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To: codercpc
Drinking Coffee  "Why do we only hear about evangelical Christians when it is an issue that threatens to split them? I am waiting for the article from anti war Cindy Sheehan types about it they can put their core issue aside and vote for Hillary."

Probably because "Nearly 60 percent of those who plan to vote in the primaries said they could not support a candidate they didn't agree with on issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage."  I don't know the exact number that this 60% represents, but I bet it's a whole lot larger than the 17 people that listen to Cindy Sheehan. 

That's news.  Sheehan isn't.
137 posted on 10/08/2007 7:36:05 PM PDT by HawaiianGecko (There are scandals that need to be addressed. Republicans address them, Democrats re-elect them.)
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To: iowamark

Yup. It’s almost as if a lot of Soros money was riding on his decision. That would make anyone feel ill at ease.

Folks, Grogre Soros is BANKING on a Third Party.


138 posted on 10/08/2007 7:36:07 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: seekthetruth

Happy to help... at least my worth is not zero!

LLS


139 posted on 10/08/2007 7:37:12 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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To: roses of sharon
Well I can't listen all the time but he has been pushing Guliani very hard the last couple days. I can't figure out his view. Guliani is wrong on everything but the war and Sean backs him because he's liberal enough to attract men who sleep with their brothers and lesbians who have abortions but see al-queda as a greater threat than George Bush.

Good example is Joe Lieberman. Sean is buddy buddy with him because he's right on the war. I don't know if he's ever asked him about his inclusion in the conspiracy to subvert the 2000 presidential election.

140 posted on 10/08/2007 7:37:31 PM PDT by Eagles6
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