This can't be good news for the liberal Republican Party "establishment" types.
From Fox News:
More than half of white evangelical Republicans would consider voting for a conservative third-party candidate should the 2008 presidential race pit Hillary Rodham Clinton against Rudy Giuliani, a poll said Wednesday.
According to the poll, 55 percent of white evangelical Republicans said they would consider a conservative who ran as a third-party candidate. Forty-two percent said they would not.
Evangelicals comprise 34 percent of GOP and Republican-leaning voters, according to Pew. They are divided about evenly among Giuliani, Fred Thompson and Sen. John McCain of Arizona.
There's a relatively easy way for the Republican establishment to prevent 34% of their base from deserting: don't support the nomination of a nominee who doesn't hold to the critical Republican positions on the defense of life and marriage.
I wonder if they're listening...or if they're still convinced that this dissatisfaction with the party is isolated to a few provincial Bible-thumpers? I suppose if they want to throw away the White House and Congress next year, they can keep on thinking that way.
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