Briley, Ron2009-07-202012-02-242007-011535-7104https://hdl.handle.net/10877/2741Following the re-election of President George W. Bush in 2004, political pundits were quick to credit Christian evangelicals with providing the margin of victory over Democratic challenger John Kerry. An article in the New York Times touted presidential adviser Karl Rove as a genius for focusing the attention of his boss upon such "moral" issues as same-sex marriage and abortion, thereby attracting four million evangelicals to the polls who had sat out the 2000 election. The emphasis of the Democratic Party upon such matters as jobs in the economically-depressed state of Ohio apparently was trumped by the emotionally-charged issues of gay marriage and abortion, which evangelicals perceived as more threatening to their way of life than an economy in decline.Text14 pages1 file (.pdf)enTexasMusicHistoryCountry musicConjuntoTejanoBluesR & BCajunZydecoJazzGospelArticle