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Has Obama Awakened the Evangelical Vote?
CBN ^ | Friday, September 10, 2010 | Jennifer Wishon

Posted on 09/11/2010 3:58:35 AM PDT by GonzoII

Grassroots Christian activists from across the country are in Washington, D.C., learning how they can help change the course of the U.S. in November.

The conference is being hosted by the relatively new Faith and Freedom Coalition. However, the group is already experiencing growing pains.

The Faith and Freedom Coalition's first national conference will be filled with hundreds of grassroots leaders from across the country this weekend. Ralph Reed, the organization's founder, told CBN News that President Barack Obama's policies are making it easy to mobilize people of faith this year.

"Barack Obama has awakened the slumbering giant of the evangelical vote," Reed said.

It's Reed's goal to turn out so many evangelical Christians that they will make up more than 30 percent of people casting votes Nov. 2.

"If you can do that what looks like a wave is going to turn into a tsunami," he said. "Now, we do have some challenges. We have churches who believe that they're not supposed to be political and we would certainly agree with that in the sense of being partisan."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: evangelical; evangelicalchristian; obama
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He better have.
1 posted on 09/11/2010 3:58:38 AM PDT by GonzoII
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To: GonzoII

Reed is able to mobilize votes. He did it in 1994.


2 posted on 09/11/2010 4:08:35 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (In 2012: The Rookie and The Wookie get booted from the White House.)
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To: GonzoII

Hopefully they don’t stay home in November because the republican candidate isn’t PURE ENOUGH FOR THEM!!


3 posted on 09/11/2010 4:16:41 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: GonzoII

Everything he does to mobilize his Alinski Base Mobilizes twice as many Americans.


4 posted on 09/11/2010 4:22:28 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (m)
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To: Ann Archy
Yeah, just a little sh*t in your food doesn't hurt.

I know where you're coming from, but conversely, our blind tolerance for candidates compromised on key issues will ultimately destroy us. Do you want a bullet through the head now, or an malignant, inoperable brain tumor?

5 posted on 09/11/2010 4:23:53 AM PDT by fwdude (Anita Bryant was right.)
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So what are you going to do in Novemebr?? If you want purity, go to Church.....there is NO PERFECTION in politics...NONE.....you wouldn’t even agree with YOURSELF all the time in politics.


6 posted on 09/11/2010 4:26:19 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

The 100 percent clkub are as much an enemy as obama.


7 posted on 09/11/2010 4:28:02 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote
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To: Ann Archy

The Republican Party has to show that it truly respects Conservatives by supporting conservative candidates like Joe Miller. Too many moderates dismiss the concerns of social conservatives as not really important. One can, of course, put an explosive issue like abortion to the side in the interests of a common front. But the medical reform bill shows that social issue such as abortion, embryonic cell research and mercy-killing are an integral part of the total liberal agenda.


8 posted on 09/11/2010 4:34:56 AM PDT by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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To: RobbyS

They ARE supporting Joe Miller!! geesh....get up to speed.


9 posted on 09/11/2010 4:40:39 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: GlockThe Vote

What’s the 100 % club?


10 posted on 09/11/2010 4:41:29 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: GonzoII
The Faith and Freedom Coalition's first national conference

These are the Huckabee dead-enders. Please stay away from the Tea Party with your hostage taking-like demands.
11 posted on 09/11/2010 4:43:07 AM PDT by nhwingut (Palin/Bachmann '12)
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They ARE supporting Joe Miller!! geesh....get up to speed.

Yeah AFTER he won, before that they were trying to destroy his candidacy... geesh get up to speed!

12 posted on 09/11/2010 4:44:55 AM PDT by AvOrdVet ("Put the wagons in a circle for all the good it'll do")
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To: GonzoII

IF hussein has NOT scared the living sh!t outta the American sleeping (marxist school/msm,Hollyweird, etc.)giant—not aino by now — it just ain’t gonna happen!!!!! !!!!!


13 posted on 09/11/2010 4:45:28 AM PDT by gunnyg (WE ARE BEHIND "ENEMY WITHIN" LINES, SURROUNDED, Our 'Novembers' Are Gone,,,So Few Can "grok" It.)
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To: AvOrdVet

They don’t endorse ANYONE in the PRIMARY!!! really....THINK.


14 posted on 09/11/2010 4:47:34 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Oh but their more than willing to INSERT themselves into a primary and actively subvert a candidates run... and by the way they were fully supporting Murkowski in her run... you know it and everyone else knows it... so save the partisan crap and just keep drinking the GOP kool-aid, it has worked so well for our country, hasn't it!
15 posted on 09/11/2010 5:01:45 AM PDT by AvOrdVet ("Put the wagons in a circle for all the good it'll do")
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To: AvOrdVet

So, answer my question, who are you going to vote for?


16 posted on 09/11/2010 5:06:37 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

The 100% club are people who will sit home and complain about a nominee or candidate for office unless they get 100% OF WHAT THEY WANT out of that person.

You see it here with people attacking Fiorina, Sarah, etc.


17 posted on 09/11/2010 5:07:18 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote
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To: GlockThe Vote
Got it...AMEN!! I am sick to death of these loser-be's.

I am VERY conservative, but change comes in small steps, and the first step is to get rid of ALL DEMOCRATS, then we can work at getting rid of RINO'S!! Some RINOS have already been knocked out..YEAH.

18 posted on 09/11/2010 5:11:15 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

If obamas disaster of an admn is not enough to show some of these people how flaewed their purity tests are, I don’t know what is.


19 posted on 09/11/2010 5:15:25 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote
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To: GlockThe Vote; Ann Archy
That group does as much good for the democrats as most RINO moderates.

Note I said most.......

20 posted on 09/11/2010 5:18:59 AM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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