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But deeper down in the story, it's clear that this dissatisfaction is being inflated. A recent poll found 100 percent of Republican evangelical and fundamentalist Christians supporting Bush. One hundred percent. The Post calls it "statistically rare," but that's an understatement.

Meanwhile, Reed says, "There is incremental progress and an ongoing conservative message delivered with greater clarity and conviction by a president than we have seen since the first term of Reagan, before we lost the Senate." But like Weblog said, he's a state party leader, so you wouldn't expect him to say otherwise.

Support from evangelicals or not, things in Bethlehem are getting worse. The Church of the Nativity is reportedly out of food, among those detained in the church are two 10-year-old boys and several others too young to shave, and neither the Israel Defense Forces nor the Palestinians are showing any signs of budging.

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