Exit Polls Pigeonhole Evangelicals Again

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Good Point! “They did it again! Just as in Iowa, yesterday’s media-sponsored Election Day poll failed to ask Democrats in New Hampshire if they were evangelical. Voters from both parties were asked about their church attendance and if they were Protestant, Catholic, Mormon, Other Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Something else, or None. But only Republicans were asked if they were born-again or evangelical Christian…. Asking only Republicans about their religion shows that the media is still stuck on the outdated and false notion that evangelical Christians are the GOP’s political property.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.”

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/

[no name 1]

I await the day there is separation of church & state......

[AnewKINDofFEELIN 0]

I await the day there is separation of church & state......

I'm more anxious for seperation of media and state.

[HAL 9000 96]

I await the day there is separation of church & state......

I'm more anxious for seperation of media and state.

Do that and the government won't be controlling that much more of what we read, see, and listen to...

[no name 1]

I await the day there is separation of church & state......

I'm more anxious for seperation of media and state.

They did get a smackdown in last night's primary tho....

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/08/Dobbs.January8/index.html

[Sheriff Uling 3]

Not only are they pigeonholing evangelicals, if you saw the responses from some of the NH primary voters, they are labeling evangelicals as folks who wear their religion on their shoulders (in response to the Iowa voters).

[PlatyPius 5]

Not only are they pigeonholing evangelicals, if you saw the responses from some of the NH primary voters, they are labeling evangelicals as folks who wear their religion on their shoulders (in response to the Iowa voters).

Isn't that the definition of "Evangelical"? Being such a believer in - and obsessed by - your faith that you want to share it with everyone? To shout it from the rooftops?

[Sheriff Uling 3]

Not only are they pigeonholing evangelicals, if you saw the responses from some of the NH primary voters, they are labeling evangelicals as folks who wear their religion on their shoulders (in response to the Iowa voters).

Isn't that the definition of "Evangelical"? Being such a believer in - and obsessed by - your faith that you want to share it with everyone? To shout it from the rooftops?

Absolutely! However, some of the remarks from NH voters seems cynical, as if it were a bad thing.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Not only are they pigeonholing evangelicals, if you saw the responses from some of the NH primary voters, they are labeling evangelicals as folks who wear their religion on their shoulders (in response to the Iowa voters).

Isn't that the definition of "Evangelical"? Being such a believer in - and obsessed by - your faith that you want to share it with everyone? To shout it from the rooftops?

I think the convention definition is a label for Christians whose political views are motivated by their religious convictions.