http://www.peterkrupa.com/archives/396 An eclectic blog for talented people Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:25:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.peterkrupa.com/archives/396/comment-page-1#comment-10106 dave Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:16:43 +0000 http://www.peterkrupa.com/archives/396#comment-10106 What was so annoying about that too was not only how gleeful Rick Warren was about his little piece of dork Christpop spotlight, but how all nightly news anchors were speculating about a new, more modern evangelicalism -- which probably doesn't exist anymore than it ever did before -- and how maybe, just maybe, Obama is going to surprise everyone and take a huge minority of those votes even though no one besides a few college junior evangelicals will actually vote for him because he has no better chance, right or wrong, of taking a group of fundamentally conservative white people spread out across the country than a group of fundamentally conservative white people concentrated in one place like Utah or my great home state of Indiana. What was so annoying about that too was not only how gleeful Rick Warren was about his little piece of dork Christpop spotlight, but how all nightly news anchors were speculating about a new, more modern evangelicalism — which probably doesn’t exist anymore than it ever did before — and how maybe, just maybe, Obama is going to surprise everyone and take a huge minority of those votes even though no one besides a few college junior evangelicals will actually vote for him because he has no better chance, right or wrong, of taking a group of fundamentally conservative white people spread out across the country than a group of fundamentally conservative white people concentrated in one place like Utah or my great home state of Indiana.

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