How can the pious candidate pivot when polls show voters shifting away from religion? The ex-governor and Baptist minister should look at Republicans’ real base—working Americans.
These days, Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas governor, Baptist minister, and current Florida resident, has among the highest favorability ratings among GOP presidential contenders.He is a natural fit for a party that has grown ever more Southern, and one which has become the political venue for White America at Prayer. As a reminder, in 2012 evangelicals cast half of all votes in contested Republican presidential primaries, up from 44 percent in 2008.Yet the very things that give Huckabee credence with the Republican base may prove to be a hindrance with an electorate that’s growing ever more secular and single, and in which unmarried women now numerically equal regular churchgoers as a voting bloc.Indeed, just last week, a cluster of polls showed thatdeism is on the upswing in America. (Deism is the belief in a supreme being who is a creator who does not intervene in the universe.) All of this should make any presidential aspirant who would wear his religion on his sleeve step back and take notice.
he like the rest are still pushing that old time religion and it's gotten to old for the generation next in line, less hate, bigotry, racism and right wing political. "PRINCIPLES" formerly known as "VALUES", are outdated and repulsive to most, charlatans like Huckabee are just standard hucksters that take advantage of those who seek religious guidance but you would think after hearing rhetoric and seeing the deceptive practices and misleading that they should recognize this isn't right, but i think most don't read their Bibles and rely on those Elmer Gantry types to show them the way, would explain why some don't recognize they are being used.
For the first time in more than three decades, less than a majority of Americansthink of the clergy as ethical or honest, with the numbers showing a stark divide based upon political affiliation. Republicans view the clergy more favorably than do Democrats or independents, and that is no surprise.But more disturbing for Huckabee and the GOP is that America’s diminished satisfaction with its religious leaders is not just about errant ministers, priests, and rabbis. Rather, it’s about religion itself.Nowadays, less than three-quarters of Americans believe in God, and even a majority of Catholics reject the idea that God intervenes in daily life. More than a fifth of Americans describe themselves as not at all religious, while fewer than half of Republicans believe in creationism.
aren't the ministers and preacher the purveyors of the gospel, that excepted then it is them that have soured Americans against religion, my personal opinion is republicans made another huge miscalculation in thinking that church goers still did not think for themselves but followed the rhetoric of their minister who would be the failure that drove them to a reality they see but don't discuss in church, and that that was discussed does not concur with republican politics.
this guy is a fraud, he tried to make Americans participate in right wing fraud by voting for the same thin more than once i wrote this on this blog 2 1/2 years ago, he hasn't changed just eating better.
this guy is a fraud, he tried to make Americans participate in right wing fraud by voting for the same thin more than once i wrote this on this blog 2 1/2 years ago, he hasn't changed just eating better.
