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List of evangelical kingmakers may signal shift in politics, opinions
By Hannah Elliott
Published May 4, 2007


NEW YORK (ABP) -- As the battle for the Republican presidential nomination takes shape, it is revealing a "seismic shift" in the way evangelicals shape their opinions, political observers say.

A recent story by the Religion News Service, in an effort to “identify the religious leaders who'll play major roles in the primary elections,” named the top 10 kingmakers of the Religious Right. Experts say the people included -- or omitted --from its ranks could indicate a shift in the way evangelicals will vote for president.

The list, released April 18, includes a suburban mother of two who happens to direct Iowa’s chapter of Concerned Women for America. But it doesn't include Old Guard evangelicals like Pat Robertson, Ralph Reed and Jerry Falwell.

Robertson and the like have become less relevant, not just because of advancing age but because the Christian Right has become much more diversified than it was 10 years ago, said Laura Olson, a political science professor at Clemson University in Clemson, S.C.
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