a:3:{s:16:"field_story_body";a:1:{i:0;a:2:{s:5:"value";s:1345:"<span style="font-size: larger;">The republican party needs all the votes they can get when it comes election time but the relationship with the &ldquo;Evangelical Christians&rdquo; continues to be tenuous at best. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">As the republican party continues to move to the left on the social issues, the evangelicals have become more and more disenchanted with the party and its progressive candidates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">The question becomes, can the republican party continue to lose close to a million evangelical voters in each presidential election because the evangelicals refuse to vote for a candidate that is &ldquo;the lesser of two evils&rdquo;?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">&nbsp;&nbsp; For an article on the evangelical voters and why they feel they have been ignored go online at:</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/some-evangelicals-in-republican-party-are-feeling-left-out-see-no-standard-bearer/2014/08/16/77c380e8-224e-11e4-958c-268a320a60ce_story.html"><span style="font-size: larger;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/some-evangelicals-in-republican-party-are-feeling-left-out-see-no-standard-bearer/2014/08/16/77c380e8-224e-11e4-958c-268a320a60ce_story.html</span></a><br />";s:6:"format";s:1:"2";}}s:17:"field_story_image";a:1:{i:0;a:10:{s:3:"fid";s:4:"4344";s:4:"list";s:1:"1";s:4:"data";a:3:{s:11:"description";s:0:"";s:3:"alt";s:0:"";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}s:3:"uid";s:1:"1";s:8:"filename";s:9:"jvote.jpg";s:8:"filepath";s:36:"sites/default/files/images/jvote.jpg";s:8:"filemime";s:10:"image/jpeg";s:8:"filesize";s:5:"17285";s:6:"status";s:1:"1";s:9:"timestamp";s:10:"1414459350";}}s:12:"field_weight";a:1:{i:0;a:1:{s:5:"value";N;}}}