"MOUNT SINAI HAS NOT BEEN ERASED FROM THE POLITICAL MAP": Terry Mattingly
...Please note the emphasis that I placed in that old lead on the role of the religious left. Some people have assumed that the "pew gap" phenomenon means that there are conservatives who go to church and liberals who do not. That is too simplistic. There are moral and cultural
liberals who are devout, as well. But their numbers are much smaller. The "pew gap" division is between traditional pews and a coalition of liberal believers and people who are openly and aggressively secular. This is the coalition that some have called the "
anti-evangelical voters." This coalition is growing and its role in the modern Democratic Party is pivotal.
Many have noted that Republicans face the crucial question of how to please the Religious Right without driving away the mushy middle of the American "values" spectrum. After last night, many more will be asking: How does the Democratic Party retain the lifestyle left, the "anti-evangelical voters" without killing itself in red-county America? Or does everyone just hang on to the cards they have right now and do this whole routine over in 2008? Anyone for Jeb vs. Hillary? Or what does the Religious Right do if its Rudy Guliani vs. John Edwards?
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