[JohnnyZ]

With priorities going beyond core moral concerns over abortion and homosexuality, two-thirds of self-proclaimed religious conservatives are likely to vote, versus roughly half of all Americans. Over 15 million religious conservatives went to vote for Bush in 2000.

I don't know where you're getting your numbers from, because Karl Rove has a few numbers at his disposal and clearly pointed to evangelicals staying home as the reason 2000 was so close. I'm a conservative Catholic. I WANT Christian conservatism to dominate the GOP. In 1994, the Religious Right voted and that happened, and we got tons of conservatives in office. Since then, not so much, and many conservatives have been defeated.

It's pure ignorance to not understand that the two are connected, and to expect a mixed group of politicians with a narrow majority to be able to pass the agenda of the conservatives. The agenda is being dominated by the 50th and 51st votes in the Senate and whatever Bush can get them to do -- if Rod Grams and Spence Abraham and John Ashcroft were around (in the Senate), we wouldn't have that problem.

[WOSG]

"I don't know where you're getting your numbers from, because Karl Rove has a few numbers at his disposal and clearly pointed to evangelicals staying home as the reason 2000 was so close. I'm a conservative Catholic. I WANT Christian conservatism to dominate the GOP. In 1994, the Religious Right voted and that happened, and we got tons of conservatives in office. Since then, not so much, and many conservatives have been defeated."

This is true, I saw analysis that showed in 1994 evangelicals had much higher turnout than union households but in drifted down and in 2000 the reverse was true.

The good news is that in 2002 it bumped up ... which got GOP the US Senate. ACLU Democrats anyone????