What will happen to the religious right when the Democrats win the White House in 2008?

Question

What will happen to the inroads they've made in furthering their agenda under the Bush Administration?

Answer 1

the religious right is closing chapters all over the south, their members are not showing up to the polls in the same numbers, all because this admin did NOTHING to end abortion or gay marriage. They realize they were lied to, and they have lost 'faith' in their party. This is why McCain is pandering to them...he realizes he needs the faith based vote to win. Unfortunately with all of his flip flopping he has now alienated the independent vote, which largely determines elections.

Answer 2

i imagine George Bush will play a large area interior the death of the Republican party. Lyndon Johnson performed a large area interior the death of the Democratic party. Johnson even said so himself and said that it would always cost his party the southern vote. The south many times used to vote democratic, now it many times votes Republican. i imagine the newshounds protecting the election receives a touch of a wonder this year at the same time as states that in many circumstances pass pink pass blue. the large shocker will be Indiana probable going blue for the first time because 1964. Indiana has in effortless words voted democrat one time because 1940. The monetary equipment interior the midwest is particularly undesirable at present because it fantastically relies upon upon production jobs that were lost in the course of the Bush administration. McCain has supported lots of Bush's regulations to win the Republican cost ticket, yet that would nicely be his downfall come the nationwide election. If I were Obama, i'd tie McCain as heavily to Bush as conceivable and deem him as yet another 4 years of Bush. i imagine the election decision will come all the way down to the Midwest, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida. yet another element that would not help to win those states, McCain already admitted he's commonplace with no longer some thing about economics. He even jested that he offered Greenspan's e book because he's commonplace with little or no about how the monetary equipment works. The midwest desperately needs a extra appropriate monetary equipment. and then with McCain choosing a operating mate with little or no journey from a state depending upon oil earnings i do not imagine the midwest will look on that too nicely.

Answer 3

What inroads? According to David Kuo, who worked for the Bush Admin from 2001 to 2003, the Bush administration was just using them, and are laughing at them behind their backs.

Answer 4

I don't think they made many inroads. He used them and abandoned them. I think it speaks volumes about his character, but at the same time I hold most of those people in such contempt that I think they deserved it. For instance, he again used the proposed Marriage Amendment to court them for 2004, when he already knew it would never pass. The Democrats will be more cautious and dismissive of the RR's agenda, and of course it will gall them. But at least they won't court them with false promises and laugh behind their backs. Not that the RR will appreciate that sort of honesty in opposition. I think they preferred to be coddled, even if it doesn't amount to anything solid for them.

Answer 5

That won't happen. The way your party is organized almost precludes you from winning in 2008. In order to garner the nomination, a candidate has to be left enough to please the DailyKos and the rest of the liberal blogosphere. Once that is accomplished, the candidate will need to spend the remainder of the campaign slogging towards the center in order to make himself more acceptable to mainstream America.

Dems have won precisely three of the last ten presidential elections, and each of those three times were with a moderate candidate. If this is so obvious to everyone else, why can the DNC not grasp it?

I'm sure the Dems will nominate someone as far left as they can in 2008...and then scratch their collective heads while wondering what happened after their defeat in November.

Answer 6

I do not think the Democrats will win with the likes of Obama and Clinton. I guess I don't understand how religion has gotten a bad rap. The majority of Americans belong to some type of religion and most Chrisitianity. What is so wrong about that?

Answer 7

It sure seems funny that this administration has practically surrendered our Separation of church and state and we have become more under the influence of religion
when they do not want religious influence to be prevalent in other countrys ie. Iraq

Answer 8

They will continue as they have in the past, whether the administration is led by Democrats or Republicans.

Answer 9

Unfortunately everybody loves to hate an enemy. So, I expect they will be more vocal in criticizing the government, enlist more fundamentalist christians to gather behind certain policies and politicians, look to run a new candidate in 2012.

Answer 10

Sounds like someone has a lot of FAITH that the democrats are going to win in 08.