“How Evangelical Leaders Blew It”

Published: February 19, 2008, 2:58 am

Tags: political strategy, religious bigotry

After fooling around with additions to, and comments about, John’s post below, I’m left with little time to post much. Instead, I’ll toss in this link to Ed Morrissey’s post today. The title says it all: How Evangelical Leaders Blew It When reading posts like Ed’s, I like to keep asking myself this question: How did we wind up in a situation where a candidate who consistently pulled no more than 35% of the Republican primary vote became the GOP nominee? My answer: Because the conservative vote was split. Why was it split? There are several reasons, but the primary one, by the time Super Tuesday rolled around, was that a large enough chunk of the Evangelical vote flocked to Huckabee to deny Romney the votes he needed to beat McCain. Much of what Ed says is addressed in our earlier post, but I like these ‘graphs: The problem the Religious Right had in this primary was the hang-up over religion, which their movement had avoided for most of its period

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