Republicans retool for evangelical outreach
Do Republicans have an evangelical problem in a party that’s been both derided and heralded as God’s Official Party?
The vast majority of evangelicals have voted with the GOP in recent elections. In fact, despite some qualms about Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith, 79 percent of evangelicals voted for the Republican nominee in 2012, the same percentage that voted for George W. Bush in 2004.
So why would the party hire its former South Carolina chairman to lead engagement with a group that for a generation or more has been the reliable anchor of the party faithful? Here are four reasons:
