Rick Warren on Voting Blocs

An addendum of sorts to the previous post, I feel compelled to dig up this now-archaic news item on the 2008 election from Newsweek. Bear in mind that I offer this with the utmost of respect for Rick Warren ... just that not all of us are called to be political commentators.

Opening of the interview:

The biggest myth and the biggest misunderstanding about evangelicals is that they are a voting bloc. This article that came out on the cover of The New York Times Magazine saying the evangelical vote was splintering--the guy just didn't get it, they never have been a voting bloc. They tend to vote for people, not down party lines.

Later in the same answer:

In the 2008 race, two guys could have been the evangelical candidate, Sam Brownback or Mike Huckabee, and they divided that vote in half. One drops out, and all of a sudden you have a "surge" for Huckabee.

So, they've never been a voting bloc and with the field limited to one evangelical candidate, they somehow are.