Paths to Success

So I've been thinking about this subject & I've come up w/ 3 main ways to improve the prospects for solid pro-life candidates in the future:

(1) increase support within the so-called "religious right" by keeping attention focused on the issue to avoid allowing these people to be distracted by lesser issues. Last night, I saw an exit poll (I think on FoxNews, but I'm not sure) saying that 20-some-odd percent of white evangelicals in Virginia voted for Obama. How many states would McCain have won if these voters had remembered the unborn?

(2) break through to the minority groups, such as African Americans, that tend to poll as more pro-life than the general public, but who vote for dismal candidates. The median life expectancy of African-Americans is now negative, since the majority (about 60%) of African-American pregnacies end in abortion.

(3) grow the pro-life movement beyond its traditional, socially conservative base. There are many voice in the wilderness in this category (Nat Hentof, Feminists for Life, the Pro-life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians), but they remain isolated. Anyone who has seen the bumper stickers on my car knows that I'm a fan of this strategy.

For all of these, you are probably thinking "How?", and so am I. I have a few ideas, but, for now, how we can achieve these goals seems like an excellent springboard for discussion.

This is going to be a speculative blog. My hope is to create a strategy discussion on how to put the government (or at least the Legislative and Executive branches) in the hands of solid pro-lifers by the end of the 2012 elections. I will have more posts on an occasional basis. Comments and suggestions on the topic are welcome in the mean time.