Obama's Standard Evangelical Theme
From Barack Obama's evangelicals close the God gap in Presidential race -Times Online:
Obama's call for change and renewal, itself a standard evangelical theme, has resonated. “I visit a lot of evangelical colleges and what I see is Obama stickers and Obama T-shirts all over the campuses,” says Campolo. “His is a voice that can inspire.”
About one-fourth of American voters are evangelicals. Out of these, I believe it is realistic to predict that about one half of them could be potential Obama voters. It will depend on how effective Obama and his supporters are able to sell his message as something appealing for the evangelically minded. The anti-Obama forces will try very hard to paint Obama as someone who is not a serious Christian. It will be up to Obama to insist that he is indeed going about doing Jesus' work, but without turning off the non-Christians.
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