David Aikman is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist and the founder of Gegrapha, an organization of predominantly evangelical Christian journalists based in Washington, D.C. He has written a number of books, including Billy Graham: His Life and Influence;  A Man of Faith: The Spiritual Journey of George W. Bush; and One Nation Without God: The Battle […]

The Rev. Leith Anderson is president of the National Association of Evangelicals and the former senior pastor of Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie, Minn.

Read a Feb. 2, 2008, New York Times column by Peter Steinfels that analyzes the imbalance of exit polling questions on faith between Republican voters and Democratic voters.

An extensive survey, “American Evangelicals,” was released in April 2004 in connection with a May special section by U.S. News & World Report and a four-part series by the PBS program Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. The survey is a comprehensive snapshot of America’s evangelical community.

See a Jan. 16, 2008, analysis of poll data from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press on religion and the electorate, with a focus on evangelicals and the GOP.

Read “The Evangelical Crackup,” an Oct. 28, 2007, story in The New York Times Magazine about the travails of the Christian right during the  election season.

Read an April 16, 2006, New York Times story about the divisions that occurred between the strong Evangelical community, and a useful graphic on surveys on evangelical differences.

Read a Jan. 24, 2008, Time magazine story, “Is Dobson’s Political Clout Fading?,” about Focus on the Family leader James Dobson.

Read a Jan. 29, 2008, Chicago Tribune story about Latino Protestants and their political influences over the ages.