Democrats Seriously Court Evangelicals

From Newsweek:

For 25 years, evangelicals have voted Republican. But the Democrats are courting, and their efforts may have a prayer.

No one expects miracles, of course. Conservative Christians started shifting to the Republicans as the "party of values" in 1979, when Jerry Falwell founded the Moral Majority. They were the most important bloc of voters in George W. Bush's victories in 2000 and 2004. But the movement is not as cohesive as it once was.

The Democrats see an opening—not to conquer the movement but to harness some of its energy for themselves.