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After the election, Ralph Reed boasted at a news conference at the National Press Club:
"We had an astonishing level of evangelical voters cast their ballots. This is the most ambitious and the most effective voter education, get-out-the-vote program directed at the faith-based vote in a midterm election in modern political history."
He said the fundamentalist turnout prevented a Democratic "blue wave" from inflicting much worse damage on Republicans.
I wish that the booming secular movement could find ways to motivate nonreligious voters, to offset such born-again blitzes.
Until that happens, I simply hope that the steady retreat of religion in America will reduce white evangelicals to an ever-smaller fringe, a petty clique unable to sway elections.
(from Daylight Atheism at Patheos, November 28, 2018)
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