Obama's Faith Coalition
Posted: November 7th, 2008, 6:20 am
I found this Newsweek article interesting. It showed that while Obama made fairly negligible gains amongst Evangelical Christian voters, a strong coalition of other faith groups helped him gain victory.
"The pro-Obama faithful represent a wild diversity of the American religious experience, including mainline Protestants, church-shoppers, the curious, the spiritual but not religious, the heterodox (those who subscribe to several traditions), the intermarried, the community-minded, the intellectually provoked but skeptical, and the traditionalists. Indeed, it includes almost every committed person of faith except those whose church culture insists on a personal relationship with Jesus Christ."
Basically, the evangelical Christian right showed up for McCain, but they simply weren't enough to get him victory.
"The pro-Obama faithful represent a wild diversity of the American religious experience, including mainline Protestants, church-shoppers, the curious, the spiritual but not religious, the heterodox (those who subscribe to several traditions), the intermarried, the community-minded, the intellectually provoked but skeptical, and the traditionalists. Indeed, it includes almost every committed person of faith except those whose church culture insists on a personal relationship with Jesus Christ."
Basically, the evangelical Christian right showed up for McCain, but they simply weren't enough to get him victory.