Evangelical eggshells

Campaign '08 | Giuliani wins over Regent audience by avoiding the “A” word | Jamie Dean

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.— In the well-appointed lobby of the Founders Inn on the campus of Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va., gold-framed oil portraits of America's first presidents line the walls. In a nearby ballroom, Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani is busy trying to convince an audience of some 650 people that he should be next in line.

For Giuliani, this is a bellwether audience. The crowd assembled at the Christian school founded by televangelist Pat Robertson is full of the evangelicals and social conservatives who have produced the biggest question mark for Giuliani's campaign: Can a Republican candidate who supports legalized abortion and civil unions for homosexuals win over a critical voting bloc that ardently opposes both?

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