Asking only Republicans about their religion shows that the media is still stuck on the outdated and false notion that evangelical Christians are the GOP's political property. No party can own any faith. Evangelicals have broadened their agenda to include care for the planet, the poor and the stranger, and as a result are increasingly independent politically. Exit polls need to abandon the hidebound frames of the culture war -- evangelicals already have.
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Pollsters Pidgeonholing Evangelicals
The Faith in Public Life weblog is taking political pollsters in New Hampshire to task for failing to ask Democrats if they were born-again Christians or Evangelicals. They only asked that question of the Republicans that they interviewed. Here's a quote:
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I would agree, but in the same breath I would disagree. Republicans have not made a bold separation from the Christian Right, and this lack of separation encourages such actions. Reading between the lines doesn't work in politics; believe it or not, sometimes in politics you have to say what you mean.
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