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...despite the inroads Obama made with religious constituencies, there is one voting bloc that remains largely unmoved by Obamamania: white Evangelicals. One-quarter of them voted for Obama on Tuesday - despite a warning from conservative columnist Janet Porter that they could be risking their eternal souls by doing so - an improvement on John Kerry's dismal showing in 2004. But against a candidate like McCain, who is famously disliked by many Evangelicals, in a campaign in which Democrats engaged in a record level of outreach to Evangelicals, and at a time when the Evangelical community is expanding its consciousness...
When Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination in early June, murmurs of dissatisfaction rippled through Hillary Clinton’s bloc of supporters both at Harvard and across the country...
...freakishly devoted Obama acolytes and those rabid, occasionally obscenity-shouting McCain-Palin fans, the undecided voter is taking her time. She's also one of the few Americans whose vote this year could actually be decisive, since some polls in swing states like Florida and Missouri show the undecided bloc to be larger than either candidate's lead...
...changing political landscape in Hamilton County has left the McCain campaign with only one sure bloc of voters--social conservatives--and even they have required convincing. Cincinnati is home to some of the country's most active social-conservative leaders, including antipornography crusader Phil Burress. Many have never forgiven McCain for famously describing religious conservatives as intolerant in 2000. The McCain campaign hired Mike Huckabee's Ohio director to help smooth relations with social conservatives. The candidate himself came to Cincinnati in late June for a private meeting with half a dozen leaders to remind them of his opposition...
...this manner at least, politicians’ appearances on comedy programs do ring a little false, as they make Machiavellian attempts to seriously embed a message in an otherwise frilly half-hour of television, meant for the listless 18-to-24 voting bloc...