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In a new profile of supposed evangelical kingmaker David Lane, the New York Times’ Jason Horowitz describes Lane as “emblematic of a new generation of evangelical leaders who draw local support or…

Or so say Penny Nance, president of Concerned Women for America, Ralph Reed, founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, and Joel Rosenberg, convert from Judaism and author of numerous end-times…

Last fall, Wall Street Journal editorialists such as Peggy Noonan and Karl Rove were full of confident predictions about the election. Rove had his polls, Noonan her “vibrations,” each telling them of the near surety of a Romney victory.

Rebuffing the religious right? Don’t count on it.

In a recent essay Marcia Pally argues that a generation of “new evangelicals” have “left the right.” But left it for what?

Across South Carolina—and indeed the country—voters attend tiny churches, Bible studies, and prayer meetings. Their collective views on the candidates are much more difficult to measure and assess. And while they may be consumers of Christian talk radio, or televangelism, or other religious media, they are not lock-step followers of the decisions of elites who met at a ranch in Texas, or of Jim Bob Duggar, or of anything but their own received revelation.

An RD holiday sampler of stories & viewpoints we would have liked to read in 2012.

Pew stats show evangelical enthusiasm equal to other Romney supporters’.

“I thought about asking my church’s pension fund to invest, but I didn’t.”

A response to a recent RD feature.