How Democrats gave up on religious voters

Tiffany Stanley writing at The New Republic: “[W]hen Obama took office, the Democrats’ faith outreach began to fall by the wayside. Several of those who had led the religious aspects of the Obama campaign landed in the OFBNP, which is legally barred from electoral politics, and thus faith-based political outreach . . . At the same time, the national party began to strip down its religious outreach programs . . . Current DNC Chairman (and former missionary) Tim Kaine has made vague statements denying that he would allow faith outreach to falter, but evidence of the DNC’s clear commitment to faith-based coordination is hard to come by.”

Jennifer Rubin comments at The Washington Post: “You have to imagine that value voters lack core convictions — an obvious bit of cognative dissonance — to miss why it is that religious voters disapprove of the Democrats these days. It’s the agenda.”