Churches See an Election Role and Spread the Word on Bush

You have to read this. it outlines just how much the GOP is doing this election year to get out the Conservative vote. the Religious Right has never been Courted any more than this election. they are working for a seamless line between the politics to the sermon to the polls. i've heard some democrats dismayed about this (understood...they should be) and SHOCkED! No one should be shocked...especially the Dems who do the same thing in a different way with black churches. the real concern is how to counter this. karl rove believes bush missed 4Million of these voters last go-'round. Ths sort of work by itself isn't the concern...as much as the extent to which it is happening in SWiNG STATES. Padding states Bush will already win isn't a risk. what we has to be known is to what extent these folks inhabit swing states.

a clip below:

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 8 - Susanne Jacobsmeyer, a member of the West County Assembly of God in a St. Louis suburb, voted for George W. Bush four years ago, but mostly out of loyalty as a Republican and not with much passion.

This year, Ms. Jacobsmeyer is a "team leader" in the Bush campaign's effort to turn out conservative Christian voters. "This year I am voting for him as a man of faith," she said over breakfast after an early morning service. "He has proven that he will do what is right, and he will look to God first."

Jan Klarich, her friend and another team leader, agreed. "Don't you feel it is a spiritual battle?" she asked to nods around the table.

The Bush campaign is seeking to rally conservative churches and their members to help turn out sympathetic voters this fall, and West County Assembly of God, a 600-member evangelical congregation in a Republican district of a pivotal swing state, is
on the front lines of the effort.