The Iowa caucuses a week away, Republican candidates are pulling out all the stops on value voting \u2013 including soliciting the help of past and present Christian heavyweights \u2013 to convince voters why they are the best person to represent evangelical Christians in the White House.<\/p>\n
Yet both voters and pundits are starting to wonder just how big an impact religion and value voters will play in the 2012 elections.<\/p>\n
There are several reasons why the Iowa caucuses matter, but one that ranks toward the top is that it serves as a bellwether for the Christian vote in future primaries. After all, the Iowa caucuses will test the intensity of a campaign. If you can get people to come to a caucus with temperatures sometimes hovering near zero, you may face much less resistance in the sunny south.<\/p>\n
But there are bumps in the road. Last week, and in an effort to mobilize Christian voters to get behind a single candidate in the Hawkeye state, noted evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats personally endorsed Rick Santorum, who only sometimes polls higher that GOP last-placer Jon Huntsman; a feat that was itself overshadowed by his asking Michele Bachmann to quit the race just a few days prior even though she is running much stronger in Iowa than Santorum.<\/p>\n
Click on this link to read the rest of the article:\u00a0http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/will-the-values-vote-matter-in-the-2012-elections-65795\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Iowa caucuses a week away, Republican candidates are pulling out all the stops on value voting \u2013 including soliciting the help of past and present Christian heavyweights \u2013 to convince voters why they are the best person to represent evangelical Christians in the White House. Yet both voters and pundits are starting to wonder just how big an impact religion and value voters will play in the 2012 elections. There are several reasons why the Iowa caucuses matter, but one that ranks toward the top is that it serves as a bellwether for the Christian vote in future primaries. After all, the Iowa caucuses will test the intensity of a campaign. If you can get people to come to a caucus with temperatures sometimes hovering near zero, you may face much less resistance in the sunny south. But there are bumps in the road. Last week, and in an effort to mobilize Christian voters to get behind a single candidate in the Hawkeye state, noted evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats personally endorsed Rick Santorum, who only sometimes polls higher that GOP last-placer Jon Huntsman; a feat that was itself overshadowed by his asking Michele Bachmann to quit the race […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[198,277,327,370,418,440],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-paul","tag-iowa-caucuses","tag-michele-bachmann","tag-paul-stanley","tag-rick-santorum","tag-the-christian-post","tag-values-voter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n