Sarah does a good job covering the bases on what we know of the Democrats' religious outreach in 2010. As she says, it's not clear that they actually punted on faith outreach, and even if they did, it's not why they lost, big.
Personally—and I'm just going to go out on a limb here—I think the GOP pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into a nasty, "us-versus-them" referendum on the economy may have played a role this cycle. As Christopher Hayes says, the way Democratic incumbents voted doesn't seem to have made a difference. So why should some piddling church outreach?
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