Obama and Religious Voters | Sarah Posner - The Diigo Meta page

• 06 Nov 08
  

  The results of this historic election repudiate narrowly crafted outreach to voters based on their perceived religious preferences. They disprove the idea that voters are comforted by hearing a candidate or his surrogate explain how his policy positions l

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  • The message that Democrats should take away is that it pays to listen to everybody. ... Not that we have to make ourselves more friendly to religion, or foreground our religious beliefs, but that Democrats should meet religious and nonreligious as friends and fellow citizens."
  • given the breadth and depth of Obama's win, and the mandate the party has to enact meaningful progressive change in Washington, the real lesson about religion of the 2008 election is that parochial outreach to religious voters should be a thing of the past.

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