Election ’08 Evangelical Odds Sheet
Updated:
Keith Drury
I was never interested in sports as a hobby—it seemed to be
a lot of money and noise about nothing in the end. Instead, I have always been interested in national
and international politics which is a lot of money and noise about a tiny bit
more. So, while it is too early to give
the “evangelical odds” on potential candidates, I’m gonna’
do it anyway. By “evangelical odds” I mean the position the various potential
candidates have of getting evangelical Christian’s support in my opinion. These are not my own personal opinions on the
candidates (I do that elsewhere), but are my general judgment on behalf of
evangelicals. I am accounting for the
fact that Republican evangelicals outnumber Democrats two to one and at the
same time almost 30% of evangelicals voted Democrat in the 2006 election. Figuring that all in, here is my