I highly encourage my readers to check out this interview with Joel Hunter in Christianity Today. Here is an excerpt:

Where do evangelicals fit in the future of politics?

We just turned a huge corner here. This is not an election that was won by inciting the base. The future will not be built by inciting the base, either on the right or the left. We have to determine whether we're going to cooperate without compromising our values and ideals. There will be those who want to be the voice crying in the darkness. That's fine, but they will prove themselves politically marginalized. There is great potential for the church to be part of the solution to the problems in our culture and the problems in our world if we can build coalitions that help enhance the common good that also enhances the Christian social agenda.

I have been saying this for a long time. The "Rove strategy" of firing up the base is dead, at least for the right. For some crazy reason, many Republicans/conservative think that McCain didn't fire up the base enough. In reality, dumb attempts at firing up the base (Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Obama is a closet Muslim, etc) not only didn't fire up the base but turned off moderates and independents, and rightly so.

I am quite sickened by the talk among many Christians this past week speaking of the coming persecution of Christians and other such nonsense. There are plenty of things that I disagree with Barack Obama about but I'm not concerned about him establishing Sharia law and persecuting Christians. That is just downright loony.

Until conservatives and especially Christians figure this out, they are doomed to remain in the minority for a long time.