Ever since the dramatic Republican sweep of evangelical voters in 2004, many new, well-funded initiatives have arisen targeting evangelicals for liberal political initiatives. Potentially at stake is the political allegiance of America's largest religious demographic.
One of the latest efforts is the National Latino Evangelical Coalition, founded in 2010, which announced a new national voter registration drive on January 10 at a Miami press conference. A number of prominent liberal Anglo evangelicals have endorsed it. And the coalition claims support from major evangelical denominations like the Church of the Nazarene and the Assemblies of God not ordinarily associated with liberal political causes.
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