{"id":6213,"date":"2011-08-19T07:20:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T07:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=6213"},"modified":"2011-08-19T14:52:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T14:52:38","slug":"evolution-and-the-g-o-p-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/evolution-and-the-g-o-p-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution and the G.O.P. candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <i>FrumForum<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frumforum.com\/ask-about-evolution-at-the-gop-debate\">Ask About Evolution at the GOP Debate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prompting James Pethokoukis to ask: \u201cWill we now get an evolution\/global warming question at next GOP debate?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I hope the answer to this question is \u201cyes.\u201d The great thing is that there is precedent for this. In one of the GOP primary debates in 2007, John McCain was asked whether or not he believed in evolution. He responded that he did, and the moderator then asked for a show of hands of candidates who did not believe in evolution.<\/p>\n<p><b>Although the GOP is often viewed as the party opposed to science, remarkably, only three candidates raised their hands: Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee, and Tom Tancredo.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve argued before that this is an issue where class is telling in the G.O.P. The fiscal conservative\/business elites aren&#8217;t Creationists, but the social conservative\/grassroots often are. The former are disproportionately represented among the leading candidates for very high office, so despite the dominant Creationism of the grassroots the candidates themselves tend to espouse elite views on evolution. A realignment on this issue will be a sure sign that populism in the G.O.P. is the real deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at FrumForum, Ask About Evolution at the GOP Debate: Prompting James Pethokoukis to ask: \u201cWill we now get an evolution\/global warming question at next GOP debate?\u201d I hope the answer to this question is \u201cyes.\u201d The great thing is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/evolution-and-the-g-o-p-candidates\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6216,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6213\/revisions\/6216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}