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Obama hopes to gain support of emerging church generation<\/em><\/p>\n

CNN
\nJuly 1, 2008<\/p>\n

(CNN) — Democrats have usually conceded the evangelical vote during presidential elections, but Sen. Barack Obama is trying to change that by mobilizing what some call the “Christian left.”<\/p>\n

As part of his outreach to evangelical voters, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee will tour the Eastside Community Ministry in Zanesville, Ohio, on Tuesday and give an address on how he plans to builda “real” partnership between faith-based organizations and the White House if he becomes president.<\/p>\n

Obama’s outreach to evangelical voters has also included private summits with pastors, an effort to reach out to young evangelicals and a fundraiser with the Matthew 25 political action committee. It describes itself as a group of moderate evangelicals, Catholics and Protestants committed to electing the Illinois Democrat president….Brian McLaren, a former pastor who spent 24 years in the pulpit and is now an informal adviser to the Obama campaign, believes that a significant portion of evangelical voters are ready to break from their traditional home in the the Republican Party and take a new leap of faith with Obama….<\/p>\n

“I think there’s a very, very sizable percentage — I think between a third and half — of evangelicals, especially younger [evangelicals], who are very open to somebody with a new vision,” McLaren said. Click here to read this entire article by CNN.<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Related:<\/strong>
\nBrian McLaren: Hoping Obama Will Be Our Next President<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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