Except many of them were Christians. So maybe your "anything remotely Christian" could be replaced by "cynical pandering to Christianity." You won't get that. Which will only further make my point. And you think it will make yours. Such is the way of worldviews.
Thus why I said in post 349 the below.
"Yet surprisingly in this year's field where Duncan was still a nobody, Fred did have a lot of Christian supporters (here on FR and otherwise, including my cousin, who now has switched to Huckabee)."