Did Democrats forget faith-based outreach?
As Democrats conducted a postmortem on the November elections, some
liberal leaders declared that one diagnosis was immediately clear: the
party's outreach to religious voters had been lifeless.
Democrats
took control of Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008 in part
because they wrested many Catholics and some white Protestants from the
Republicans' tight grip. Gains among those voters helped elect
Democrats in rural and suburban areas that had long been GOP
strongholds.
But by November 2010, progressive leaders say,
Democrats largely retreated to the same old wonky language to explain
their policies and the same old political strategies to drum up
voters—with predictable results.
