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Little known fact: most of the impressive gains that George W. Bush made among Hispanics in 2004 were actually among Latino evangelicals. In other words, it was his appeal to evangelicals that did it as much as his appeal to Hispanics. They liked his conservative positions on abortion and gay marriage, and his evangelical faith.…

Mark Silk asks: “If Sarah Palin left the church where she was baptized when she ran for statewide office lest people think her a Holy Roller while Barack Obama stayed at the church where he was baptized despite the risk of being considered a black liberationist until his presidential campaign was almost overwhelmed by it,…

McCain backers have said McCain chose Sarah Palin because she’s so much like him. Most important, she seems to have taken on the Republican establishment. But in other ways she represents everything he hates. A few weeks ago, former senator Rick Santorum said that when they served in the Senate together McCain “would often rail…

Virtually nothing can come out that will dissuade evangelicals from adoring Sarah Palin. No, I’m not accusing them of being ingorant or “easily led.” But the dynamics of how this is playing out make it extremely unlikely they’ll fallout of love with her, even in the face of evidence that sh’es not actually a reformer.…
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