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Role in the Christian Coalition

==Role in the Christian Coalition==

 

 

Reed’s leadership at the Christian Coalition helped to move religious conservatives into the mainstream and make them one of the most important constituencies in the electorate.  Political analysts now agree that the so-called “values voters” are among the most critical voting blocs in contemporary American politics.  They proved critical to the election of the first Republican Congress in forty years in the 1994 landslide, and also were integral to the election victories of President George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004.

Reed’s leadership at the Christian Coalition helped to move religious conservatives into the mainstream and make them one of the most important constituencies in the electorate.  Political analysts now agree that the so-called “values voters” are among the most critical voting blocs in contemporary American politics.  They proved critical to the election of the first Republican Congress in forty years in the 1994 landslide, and also were integral to the election victories of President George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004.

Reed Joined Coalition

==Reed Joined Coalition==

 

USA Weekly reported that Reed “got his chance in January 1989.  At a Washington dinner party during George H.W. Bush’s inaugural, he was seated next to Pat Robertson, whom Bush had beaten in the primaries.  Robertson, who’d never mounted a real threat but had managed to build strong grassroots organizations in several states, was looking for someone to take it from there.”  

USA Weekly reported that Reed “got his chance in January 1989.  At a Washington dinner party during George H.W. Bush’s inaugural, he was seated next to Pat Robertson, whom Bush had beaten in the primaries.  Robertson, who’d never mounted a real threat but had managed to build strong grassroots organizations in several states, was looking for someone to take it from there.”