Reply #10: Some Democrats go online to click with religious voters [View All]

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20060905/a_faithfuldems05.art.htm

Some Democrats go online to click with religious voters

By Martin Kasindorf
USA TODAY

LOS ANGELES — The Democratic Party, saddled with a secular image that has hurt it in elections, is getting religion.

Some Democrats have been mentioning God more often since the party lost the 2004 presidential election. To encourage that trend, former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman David Wilhelm, an Ohio investment banker and churchgoing Methodist, is launching a website today that is aimed at persuading more devout Christians to vote Democratic.

Wilhelm's website — FaithfulDemocrats.com — is a collection of blogs, theological essays and candidate features and is not officially affiliated with the Democratic Party. The site is designed to rally Christian Democrats and attract socially moderate evangelicals.

One factor in the defeat of Democrat John Kerry in 2004 was a big turnout of socially conservative Christians. Many of these voters told pollsters they were attracted by Republican-supported ballot measures opposing same-sex marriage in Ohio and other key states.

FULL story at link above.