Word: christianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Christian Coalition played somewhat the same role on the right that the AFL-CIO did on the left, but in very different fashion. While the union federation began its televised attacks on Republicans early, the coalition held its fire until the very end, apparently trying--successfully--to fly below the radar of suspicious Democrats. Two days before the election, however, coalition volunteers distributed what they said were 45 million "voter guides" at 125,000 churches around the country. Though the guides, like the AFL-CIO ads, did not directly oppose or support any candidate, they gave Democrats a consistent hammering...
...made a name for himself in the legislature by sponsoring a "shoot-the-burglar" law and carrying a plastic fetus to abortion debates, made no attempt to temper his conservative views. He counted on the rising Republican tide in the state and strong support from groups such as the Christian Coalition and Gun Owners of America to put him over the top. Landrieu's win shows that even in an increasingly conservative state like Louisiana, the political middle is usually where the votes...
...message? And if it was the message, which part? Did Dole move too far to the center or not far enough? Should he have stuck to tax cutting, as Jack Kemp and Steve Forbes kept insisting, or run against abortion and vulgar pop culture, as William Bennett and the Christian right were hoping? At one time or another, Dole tried to run all those ways, so his loss cast a shadow over every label and lets every wing of the party read the returns in the way that suits it best. But when the fighting is over, the only question...
...major contender, naturally, is the religious right, which controls much of the party apparatus on the state and local level. Ralph Reed, head of the Christian Coalition, is promising that in the next presidential race his 1.7 million-member organization will coordinate with other religious conservatives early in the Republican primaries to name their candidate. And this time, it won't be a halfhearted culture warrior like Dole...
Along the sawtooth edges of the Christian right, Reed is under suspicion as a political strategist who found religion rather than a committed religious conservative who found politics. He knows there is grumbling about him for tacitly backing Dole, a loser who hardly even touched on abortion and family issues in the campaign. Reed's defense--"It's hard to make the argument that this race would have been significantly closer if the nominee had been someone else" (Buchanan? Alan Keyes?)--is plausible enough. Even so, next time the pressure will be on Reed to find somebody agreeable to Gary...