McCain and Obama's Battle over Evangelical Voters

Over the past few elections, the religious vote is still up for grabs between Obama and McCain. McCain is not close enough with the Evangelical voters, whereas Obama is almost too tied into the subject. Both of these issues with the candidates may result in a loss of voters from religious fields. McCain has been bumping up his outreach to Christian conservatives and Evangelical voters over the past few months. It's said that many of these religious persons have admitted to not looking forward to run out and vote in the fall because of the way this is going. McCain has to be careful and balance the way he's turning on and off the religion switch because if he amps it up too much, the Democrats and those in the political middle might be warded off. On the opposite end, Obama isn't worrying about creating a balancing act, and is instead moving in with full force to the evangelical voters. Obama has even hired a full-time staff to organize groups with a curriculum all about faith and politics in hopes to try and sway the voters. McCain still has the advantage that he hasn't openly slandered a member of the Senate when talking about religion. It is said that Obama confronted Lieberman about the personal attacks he made about Obama lying about being a Muslim. This wasn't a smart move to make on Barack's part because Lieberman is able to reach out to the Jewish community to encourage a candidate to vote for, and now that he's feuded with Obama, that might not be the candidate he wishes to support, creating a portion of the Jewish community to not support Obama.

I think that religion does play a huge role in the election, and the religious voters could sway either way because the candidates both have a polar opposite view on the topic. Though Obama is going full force trying hard to convince the evangelical and religious voters that he's the better candidate, he might be coming on too strong, making them lose interest. I believe that McCain has the better chance of winning the Evangelical votes. John McCain is doing a great job balancing out the subject. He's smart in realizing that if he comes on too strong like Obama, he might lose out on some voters who aren't big advocates on religion, yet if he is too soft on the subject, the conservatives and Evangelical voters won't take the time of day to go out and vote for him. Overall, it's simply a matter of who does better convincing the religious population that they care more about religious topics and would make necessary changes for him. I'm sure that this catfight over the Evangelical voters will be duked out until the very end.