Crucial decision

Evangelicals know better than to stay home on Nov. 7 | Hugh Hewitt

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is 86. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 73. Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy are both 70. Stephen Breyer is 68. David Souter is 67.

The senators elected next month are likely to cast votes on replacements for several of these. And yet, pundits and pollsters are predicting that evangelicals and conservative Catholics will stay home or even vote Democratic in November because of the predatory perversion of disgraced and exiled Mark Foley.

On Feb. 1, 1993, The Washington Post ran a story that described evangelicals as "poor, uneducated, and easy to command." The Post retracted the description the next day, saying that it lacked a factual basis, but readers caught a glimpse of the big media's stereotype of a faith-based voter.

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