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Evangelicals Blame Foley, Not Republican Party
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Last Edited | CBlock941 Oct 09, 2006 02:06pm |
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Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
News Date | Monday, October 9, 2006 08:05:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | VIRGINIA BEACH, Oct. 7 — As word of Representative Mark Foley’s sexually explicit e-mail messages to former pages spread last week, Republican strategists worried — and Democrats hoped — that the sordid nature of the scandal would discourage conservative Christians from going to the polls.
But in dozens of interviews here in southeastern Virginia, a conservative Christian stronghold that is a battleground in races for the House and Senate, many said the episode only reinforced their reasons to vote for their two Republican incumbents in neck-and-neck re-election fights, Representative Thelma Drake and Senator George Allen. |
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