Another Answer To THE QUESTION, Identity Politics on the run, and more…

Published: January 16, 2008, 9:20 am

It’s Michigan’s Turn to Answer . . . The Question and the answer is…YES! Politically this is highly significant given Michigan’s size, the delegates at stake, and the results on the undercard, which spell the possible end to Evangelical identity politics. Some, like the NYPost had to continue to saw on the Mormon angle with their headline, “The Mormon The Merrier.” Cute, but unnecessary and irrelevant as this CNN post shows. Romney was also aided by winning a strong share of evangelical voters. As predicted, evangelical turnout was up this cycle they constituted 38 percent of GOP primary voters. Mike Huckabee was banking on winning this bloc as overwhelmingly as he had in Iowa, but the exit polls indicate that he and Romney were essentially tied among those voters, with Romney getting the votes of 33 percent to Huckabee's 31 percent. That may be the most encouraging thing I have read in a very long time. The London Telegraph also

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