Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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In the years since Christian conservatives emerged from the cultural wilderness in the 1970s, presidential candidates have increasingly made religious faith a centerpiece of the U.S. political arena. From Ronald Reagan opening his 1980 presidential campaign by invoking John Winthrop's characterization of America as a chosen nation, a "shining...
In the 1992 election, President George H.W. Bush learned that breaking the golden rule could be politically fatal. When Republicans gathered in Houston for their national convention that year, Bush provided religious conservative favorites Pat Robertson and Pat Buchanan with prime slots in the speaking lineup and then allowed both...
Something similar could happen in 2008 if the religious fervor of the G.O.P. primary season seeps over into the general election race. When Sam Brownback, a favorite of Christian conservatives, dropped out of the Republican race in late October, Huckabee immediately seized the opening at the Values Voters Summit organized...
On Saturday, Jan. 5, Republicans in Dick Cheney's home state will hold their own renegade primary. It is a huge risk for the state G.O.P. They moved up the primary date without the blessing of Republican National Committee and will lose half their convention delegates for violating the rules...
In Iowa, the evangelical appeal may be enough to carry him to victory, following the trail blazed by the televangelist Pat Robertson in 1988, who placed second in the Republican caucuses. If Huckabee wins Iowa, however, the rest of the Republican Party awaits, and it is unclear how they will...