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...Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
...point man, and "what you do is give the Democrats a license to go hunting for Evangelical votes on other things they care about--on climate change, economic justice, racial reconciliation." Green's research suggests that this risk is real. It's much harder for the GOP to mobilize Christian conservative voters, he says, if abortion is not part of the debate...
...been one taken in the last six or seven months that shows anything other than I'm the Republican that has the best chance to beat her." Perhaps he is getting accustomed to being left out of the club that doesn't want him as a member. The Iowa Christian Alliance just threw a dinner to which they invited all the GOP candidates--except...
...Democrat, and he has spent the ensuing weeks burnishing his regular-guy image. Public service commissioner and former state senator Foster Campbell is the more traditional Louisiana Democrat, proud to wear the populist label. But he's little known outside his North Louisiana stronghold, where Jindal's appeals to Christian conservatives have cut into Campbell's natural base. Rounding out the field of major candidates is New Orleans businessman John Georges, who is running as an Independent...
...Hindu household, Jindal has made his name by aligning himself with the cultural conservative wing of the Republican Party, fiercely opposing stem cell research and abortion while favoring the teaching of Intelligent Design in public schools. The strategy has helped his standing among the state's conservative Christian voters, and helped him overcome the twin liabilities (in some circles) of intellectualism and ethnicity - traits that arouse suspicion in some of Louisiana's rural stretches, and that many say also helped tip the scales against him in 2003. He has mostly toed the party line in his short time in Congress...