yep it’s evangelicals vs everybody else.. and you wonder why Cruz is going to start falling apart with the American electorate.. they don’t like religion pushed into their faces,, they never have.. it’s a personal thing that they don’t want politicized,, preaching an hour sermon Sunday put a lot of voters off even here in SC I can tell you,, notice his poll numbers dropped after that
The problem that these guys dont get is that evangelicals are not a bloc of votes, but some catch-all term with vague boundaries.
Playing to them as your primary election strategy is absurd! You already heard Cruz supporters blow of New Hampshire because there went many of them there. They didn’t see that Cruz’s appeal wasn’t broad enough, just that the people there didn’t fit their target group.
Like what is he going to do in the general election? Just campaign in states with evangelicals in it?
Well, part of this is the understanding that if it’s “believers” vs “non-believers,” who’se in the club? Unitarians? Quakers? Seventh-Day Adventists? Mormons? Christian Scientists?
Then it gets to Anglicans, Catholics . . . . It’s precisely what Madison was afraid of: any alignment with one denomination would quickly lead to oppression of others. So, with Muslims it can’t be “religious” as much as constitutional: since they cannot swear allegiance to the Constitution and disavow their “taqiyya” heritage, citizenship is problematic.
We will see come Super Tuesday.