Despite Barack Obama’s heavyoutreach to religious voters, more evangelicals report hearing from John McCain’s campaign, a new poll suggests.
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll report shows that 26 percent of evangelicals have been contacted by McCain’s campaign, compared with 15 percent who have heard from the Obama campaign.
The Obama campaign seems to take a more public approach with their faith tours, while perhaps the McCain campaign is taking a quieter approach.
The 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign urged people to obtain church directories, but last year, McCain’s campaign denied the same approach. Obama’s head of religious outreach Joshua DuBois told Michael Paulson of The Boston Globe that the campaign would not “steal” church directories to call people. Eric Gorski of the Associated Press wrote last month that a McCain campaign spokesman declined to say whether parish directories were in the campaign’s plans.
