Dave O'Bannon, 62, cast his first presidential ballot, in 1976, for a fellow evangelical – Jimmy Carter.
"I fell in love with Jimmy Carter," he sighed in an October phone call. "I just fell in love with his love of God."
At the time, Mr. O'Bannon was 18 years old, and the Republican campaign to capture the white evangelical vote was just gaining momentum. Mr. O'Bannon was shortly swept up by the party’s alliance with conservative Christians, and for the next four decades he would not cast a single presidential ballot for a Democrat.
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