Such a strange plot, that it just might werk!

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Hillary Clinton has hired an "evangelical consultant” to help woo Christian conservatives in her likely 2008 presidential campaign.
The move comes after a similar political operative successfully aided Democratic candidates in several states in the midterm elections.
More than one-quarter of the nation’s voters identify themselves as evangelical .

Clinton’s new hire is Burns Strider, an evangelical Christian who directs religious outreach for House Democrats and is the lead staffer for the Democrats’ Faith Working Group, headed by incoming Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina.

 

[rolmops]

Re: Such a strange plot, that it just might werk!

This seems like a dangerous game.The republicans did it and their party was taken over by the religious right.
Are the democrats falling in the same trap?
The only winners will be the evangelicals

 

[WillyBWright]

Re: Such a strange plot, that it just might werk!

Nancy Reagan hired an Astrologer. So what's your point.

 

[KaGee]

Re: Such a strange plot, that it just might werk!

Evangelicals are no different than the rest of society when it come to politics. There is a segment of people easily dooped because of their ignorance.

 

[CalicoKid]

Re: Such a strange plot, that it just might werk!

Carl Rove wasn't available? ? ?

edit: why do 3 question marks show up as???

 

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Re: Such a strange plot, that it just might werk!

Nancy Reagan hired an Astrologer. So what's your point.

"Observers of Clinton’s expressions of faith say religion has always been important to her, that she attended prayer group meetings while first lady, and that she joined a Senate prayer group shortly after winning election in 2000,” The Hill reports.


"Reporters anticipating Clinton’s ’08 presidential run wrongly discount her expressions of faith as cynical political maneuvering," the observers add.


Clinton is not the only potential Democratic candidate for the White House to launch efforts to appeal to religious voters
Josh Dubois, an aide in Barack Obama’s Senate office, is heading his religious outreach. Sen. John Kerry gave a speech on "service and faith” in September at conservative Pepperdine University, and has brought in Shaun Casey, an associate professor of Christian Ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary, as a consultant on religious outreach.

Kerry also traveled recently to California for a meeting with Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church and author of the best-seller "The Purpose-Driven Life.”


Clinton’s evangelical point man, Strider, will take his cue from Mara Vanderslice, whose consulting firm Common Good Strategies helped Democratic candidates make inroads among evangelical and churchgoing Roman Catholic voters in Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.


Exit polls showed that Vanderslice’s candidates did about 10 percentage points better than Democrats nationally among those voters, The New York Times reports.