Are the Bible Thumpers Losing Their Grip on Our Politics?

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The Christian Right appears to be in decline, yet Republicans still pander to them. What gives?



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"squeaky wheel gets the grease"... they are still very noisy and acting like they have influence. And they have money.

But great to read the article ... maybe they are fading, and we just don't realize it yet. The noise they are making now may just be the last gasps before dying.
 
The Dude said:
Where is the place that Jesus freaks don't rule!
Say outside of a much higher educated sate like Cali!
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They don't rule where I live in the Metro Columbus area. Now in the rural farming village I'm from if the Pope says "drop and squat!" They instinctively drop and squat and the only thing they ask is "how big do you want the pile?"
 
Howey said:
Like the south with its masses of uneducated, inbred rednecks.
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In the rural midwest too. It's not really not so much a religious thing as it is angry rural white guy thing. Racial and social diversity from the urban regions is threatening to them and it scares the hell out of them.

Our political divide in the US isn't really a liberal/conservative or religious paradigm. It's an urban vs rural divide.
 
tekkychick said:
"squeaky wheel gets the grease"... they are still very noisy and acting like they have influence. And they have money.

But great to read the article ... maybe they are fading, and we just don't realize it yet. The noise they are making now may just be the last gasps before dying.
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they can still turn out the vote to 'primary' a candidate out of office.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
They don't rule where I live in the Metro Columbus area. Now in the rural farming village I'm from if the Pope says "drop and squat!" They instinctively drop and squat and the only thing they ask is "how big do you want the pile?"
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Yeah right, when the last atheist gov of Ohio slow?
 
Mott the Hoople said:
In the rural midwest too. It's not really not so much a religious thing as it is angry rural white guy thing. Racial and social diversity from the urban regions is threatening to them and it scares the hell out of them.

Our political divide in the US isn't really a liberal/conservative or religious paradigm. It's an urban vs rural divide.[/QUOTE
It's education vs anti education
Can't call them rednecks because they are pasty white, but just as illiterate
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Don Quixote said:
they can still turn out the vote to 'primary' a candidate out of office.
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In California we went to the "top two" primary; that means the top two vote getters in a primary go on to the general election, not the top one of each party. Now I don't particularly like this - it's not good for third parties, and in counties which are largely one party or the other, you can end up with two people of the same party going to the general election.

This happened in my county - 2 dems, 2 repubs, 1 independent ran in the last primary for state representative. The two repubs were the top two vote getters; one of them was heavily Tea Party, the other was just conservative.

So in this case - the TP'ers didn't have their way. The TP candidate won the primary -but in the general election, enough of us held our noses and voted for the non-TP guy (since we didn't have a candidate in the race) that the TP candidate lost.

So I agree in most cases the evangelical minority or the TP minority can use the primary to make a candidate bow to them - in some cases, it doesn't work.
 
tekkychick said:
In California we went to the "top two" primary; that means the top two vote getters in a primary go on to the general election, not the top one of each party. Now I don't particularly like this - it's not good for third parties, and in counties which are largely one party or the other, you can end up with two people of the same party going to the general election.

This happened in my county - 2 dems, 2 repubs, 1 independent ran in the last primary for state representative. The two repubs were the top two vote getters; one of them was heavily Tea Party, the other was just conservative.

So in this case - the TP'ers didn't have their way. The TP candidate won the primary -but in the general election, enough of us held our noses and voted for the non-TP guy (since we didn't have a candidate in the race) that the TP candidate lost.

So I agree in most cases the evangelical minority or the TP minority can use the primary to make a candidate bow to them - in some cases, it doesn't work.
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because the gop self destructed in ca when it was taken over by the religious right, now ca is a deep blue state and likely to stay that way for a while, like until the dims screw up which they eventually will.
 
Don Quixote said:
because the gop self destructed in ca when it was taken over by the religious right, now ca is a deep blue state and likely to stay that way for a while, like until the dims screw up which they eventually will.
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Which makes your beautiful state that much more glorious.
 
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