Steve Waldman delivers the news:
Evangelicals made up an even bigger part of the McCain vote than the Bush vote. Born again Christians or evangelicals made up 36% of Bush vote and, by my count, 38.% of the McCain vote. Some of that results from non-evangelicals – Catholics in particular — abandoning the Republicans while evangelicals mostly stayed put. But the Republican ticket actually drew two million more evangelicals in raw numbers than George Bush did, presumably because of excitement about Sarah Palin and extreme fear of Barack Obama.
It will get worse before it gets better.
The Dish 