{"id":3277,"date":"2010-12-24T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:05:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:05:36","slug":"the-new-republic-on-the-collapse-of-democratic-party-outreach-to-religious-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3277","title":{"rendered":"The New Republic on the collapse of Democratic Party outreach to religious voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Republic is the liberal version of National Review magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Go here &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/article\/politics\/80162\/democrats-faith-based-outreach\">http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/article\/politics\/80162\/democrats-faith-based-outreach<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or here<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/article\/politics\/80162\/democrats-faith-based-outreach\" target=\"_self\">To defend his record and contend with the right-wing grassroots, Obama would do well to articulate the moral-religious values that permeate his policies and initially energized his supporters. And, if the Democrats want to avoid the impression that such values messaging is merely a presidential-election-year tactic, they should probably begin reinvigorating their faith outreach efforts sooner rather than later. \u201cNinety percent of people believe in some sort of God,\u201d Sager points out. \u201cIt\u2019s mind-boggling why you would cede those voters to the Republican Party.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Republic is the liberal version of National Review magazine. Go here &#8211; http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/article\/politics\/80162\/democrats-faith-based-outreach or here To defend his record and contend with the right-wing grassroots, Obama would do well to articulate the moral-religious values that permeate his policies and initially energized his supporters. And, if the Democrats want to avoid the impression that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8916,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions\/8916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}