{"id":87,"date":"2008-01-04T10:31:53","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T10:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/castingstones\/2008\/01\/i-basically-agree-with-david.html"},"modified":"2008-01-04T10:31:53","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T10:31:53","slug":"i-basically-agree-with-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/castingstones\/2008\/01\/i-basically-agree-with-david.html","title":{"rendered":"Is the Iowa Caucus the Most Christian Place in America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I basically agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jwalking\/\">David Kuo <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/crunchycon\/\">Rod Dreher<\/a> that Huckabee\u2019s victory cannot be dismissed as an evangelical fluke \u2013 a la Pat Robertson in 1988.  Huckabee\u2019s message and style are just too appealing to evaporate over night.<br \/>\n<strong>BUT <\/strong>before we get too deep into meta-analysis, we need to remember that an astounding 60% of the Iowa Republican caucus-goers were evangelicals.<br \/>\nI literally can&#8217;t think of another state where that will be the case.  For instance, many pundits predicted that Huckabee would therefore do well in South Carolina, a Bible-belt state chuck full of evangelicals. But in 2000, the last time there was a contested Republican primary there, 20% of the electorate was \u201cBorn again\/evangelical.\u201d  How about Alabama? More, but there 40% said they were part of the \u201creligious right,\u201d still not as much as Iowa.<br \/>\nAmong non-evangelicals (i.e. the people who will now dominate the Republican contests), Huckabee lost to Romney 33% to 14%. Even Fred Thompson beat him among non-evangelicals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I basically agree with David Kuo and Rod Dreher that Huckabee\u2019s victory cannot be dismissed as an evangelical fluke \u2013 a la Pat Robertson in 1988. Huckabee\u2019s message and style are just too appealing to evaporate over night. BUT before we get too deep into meta-analysis, we need to remember that an astounding 60% of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is the Iowa Caucus the Most Christian Place in America? - Casting Stones<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/castingstones\/2008\/01\/i-basically-agree-with-david.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is the Iowa Caucus the Most Christian Place in America? - Casting Stones\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I basically agree with David Kuo and Rod Dreher that Huckabee\u2019s victory cannot be dismissed as an evangelical fluke \u2013 a la Pat Robertson in 1988. 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