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Time Magazine pretty much sums up why the Republicans will be very hard pressed to get my vote this year, especially after Palin was added to the ticket, in this article: “Are Evangelicals Really Sold on Palin?”

I particularly enjoyed this paragraph:

That goes double for younger Evangelicals. These voters tend to be even more pro-life than their parents, but abortion isn’t always a priority that moves their votes — it wasn’t when McCain was alone on the ticket, and there’s no reason for that to change with the addition of Palin. More important, Palin has problematic stances on many of the issues that do motivate young Evangelicals. Her insistence that global warming is not man-made, for instance, is unlikely to appeal to those Evangelicals who have embraced so-called “creation care” in the past few years. This is particularly relevant to the current race, as young Evangelicals account for much of that demographic’s undecided bloc. No one knows what the size of their impact may be in November because young Evangelicals are consistently underrepresented in polls of white Evangelicals. (Even a TIME poll of likely white Evangelical voters conducted last month used a sample in which just 10% of respondents were between 18 and 35. That age group made up 22% of the total electorate in 2004, and its share of the electorate is expected to increase this year.)

And if you were annoyed as I was about the Republican convention and their unwillingness to answer questions about the incogruities in their speeches and supposedly credentials, On the Media hit back during their September 7th show.

The fur is flying indeed!