Myrtle Beach, S.C. – It had the feeling of a Great Depression tent revival, but the speakers weren’t calling for the participants to come to Jesus, because most of them already have. They were searching for the right words to get politically active Christians in South Carolina to come together before primary voting Saturday.
The candidates and other key leaders spoke to about 300 people in a tent across Monday’s debate location, who appeared to mostly be evangelical Christians undecided, and looking for a candidate to settle on.
South Carolina Rep. Tim Scott fired the audience up by asking, “Do you love Jesus? Yes you do!” said Scott as the audience roared.
“Here we are on the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., but we know now the minority who is under the greatest attack are Christians. I believe we can look no further than the word of God to help save from these attacks,” Scott screamed.
The tone of the event was established by Faith and Freedom founder, Ralph Reed, who is no stranger to rallying Christian troops and keeping track of them. He also is keenly aware that 17 million evangelicals failed to show up to vote in 2008 and he knows that if that even half of those people don’t cast their votes, then President Obama can serve another four years.
“At our peak during the heyday of the Christian Coalition, we had a database of about 80 thousand evangelical voters,” Reed told the crowd. “Because of technology, we have a tremendous amount of data. We know who you are because we’re tracking over 130 million households today.”
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