Palin Comparison
Sep 4th, 2008 | By Skye Jethani | Category: PoliticsI’ve already written about Obama’s poor performance at the Saddleback forum a few weeks ago. His campaign has been trying hard to win support among moderate evangelical voters, but his answers to Rick Warren’s abortion questions were very disappointing—doing nothing to change religious voters’ views of liberal Democrats despite Obama’s policy stance to reduce the number of abortions.
Now comes Governor Palin. The self-described bible believing conservative from Alaska. The hockey mom (pitbull in lipstick) has energized the evangelical base of the GOP and infused their lukewarm support for McCain with some religious zeal. Where does this leave Obama’s chances with evangelicals? Answer: right about where John Kerry’s were in 2004.
Steve Waldman posted this report on the CT Politics blog:
I asked Mark DeMoss, Christian PR mogul
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