Things are getting interesting - Bush losing some Evangelical support?

[featherman]

http://www.latimes.com/news/politihttp://www.latimes.com/news/politics/2004/la-na-evangelicals27oct27,0,2472235.story?coll=la-home-headlines

"An estimated 80% of the evangelical vote went to Bush in 2000. But Bush's senior political strategist, Karl Rove, said after the 2000 election that the president might have won the race against Democrat Al Gore by a comfortable margin had 4 million more evangelicals gone to the polls rather than sitting out the election...


....A poll published last week by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that 70% of self-described evangelicals or born-again Christians planned to vote for the president, down from 74% in the same survey three weeks earlier. That was not only a slight decline, but lower than the 80% to 90% support that Bush campaign officials had been forecasting."

[terrya]

1. I can't believe that that "support" for civil unions pandering...

didn't help Bush with the evangelicals.

[charlyvi]

3. True Christians aren't bigots.

They are against shrubs* social programs, or lack thereof, and recognize pandering when they see it.

[still_one]

2. Maybe someone told them * was the anti-Christ

[SnowGoose]

4. One fingered victory salute!

I'm sure that's making the rounds with evangelicals that are on the internets just like it did everywhere else.

[DemocracyInaction]

5. That is VERY BIG news because they knew they had to at least

get as much of that support as they did last time and this is not just a slight dip!! I predict that you will find this happening in these midwest battleground states rather than the solid south. AND that could just be it, the final Bush nail, in this election!!!