Or at least that's the word from Thomas Ferraro, via
Yahoo:
Democratic politicians have found religion and that may help explain why they are suddenly more popular among churchgoing Americans.
Early correction #1: Found isn't the word to go for on this matter.
After all, they're not converting or anything. I don't think there's any logs for this. But it's not like they started going to church on November 3rd, 2004. But then again, it's the 'liberal' media. Which means they have to suggest that it's just all so abrupt and opportunistic. Ya know.
Early correction #2: Perhaps the churchgoing Americans are also sick of Republican corruption, and the War. They do live in the same country as us, after all and they share a lot of the same concerns. And the old tricks and smokescreens may not be working in swaying those voters.
Moving on..
As they push to win control of the U.S. Congress in Tuesday's elections from Republicans, who have long enjoyed support among conservative religious voters, more and more Democrats have shed a reluctance to talk about their faith.
And not in the awkward ways of the past, where it seemed too much like pandering.
"What we're doing is paying real dividends in the faith community," said Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina, who heads the House of Representatives Democratic Faith Working Group, an outreach effort by lawmakers to ministers from the left and right.
I'm sure the DFWG has found a way to top the allure of a some party's conference call approach to this matter.
Presumably real dividends doesn't involve "trying to bait them, and then bashing them behind their backs". Like with the Republican Bait and Switch approach mentioned by the Kuo book.
"We're framing issues in religious terms and getting our members to be comfortable with it," said Clyburn, the son of a fundamentalist minister.
Hey, that can't be too bad. It'll probably produce 75 diaries in one day if it goes too far though.
A popular phrase for Democrats this year is "the common good," essentially a shared sacrifice to help all.
Hm.. you mean it's not for the common good to run up huge deficits?
A brief summary of things in this article.
1. The media thinks that they can base articles on Democrats finding their religion. Despite any evidence to the contrary.
2. Democrats started to work harder on not losing huge numbers of evangelical voters after 2004. Which coincides with a lot of hard work on other fronts. Which could overlap with the hard work on this matter.
3. Churchgoing voters such as mainline Protestants and Catholics are moving away from the Republicans. And I welcome them back to our side.
4. Harold Ford Jr can't help but love the Lord. Or as he puts it "I can't help it. I love Jesus." Now, that's t-shirt material right there.
5. All this will be slightly awkward if implemented the wrong way.
6. Green Party supporters will find a way to try and gain ground based on lying about all this.
So in other words, this could be in the set of "biannual election articles" to join such articles as "African-Americans not quite as enthusiastic about Democrats" (used in 2004, 2000, and so on) in the rotation.
So, in conclusion, whatever is happening here isn't going to be that awkward. And we'll still be able to dance and wear jeans.
And geez.. the media thinks Democratic candidates just found religion? Fools.
Ok, that's all