My initial thought was if you have to devise a strategy to gain their support, that may say something about whether you have conflicting values.  But as I read more this became rather interesting.

Consultant Helps Democrats Embrace Faith, and Some in Party Are Not Pleased

As Democrats turn toward the 2008 presidential race, a novice evangelical political operative is emerging as a rising star in the party, drawing both applause and alarm for her courtship of theological conservatives in the midterm elections.

Party strategists and nonpartisan pollsters credit the operative, Mara Vanderslice, and her 2-year-old consulting firm, Common Good Strategies, with helping a handful of Democratic candidates make deep inroads among white evangelical and churchgoing Roman Catholic voters in Kansas, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Exit polls show that Ms. Vanderslice’s candidates did 10 percentage points or so better than Democrats nationally among those voters, who make up about a third of the electorate. As a group, Democrats did little better among those voters than Senator John Kerry’s campaign did in 2004.

10 percent may not sound like much, but it is actually a huge advantage.

Hot Air first reported:  Breaking: Iraqi court upholds Saddam’s death sentence

Saddam loses death sentence appeal: govt official

An Iraqi appeals court on Tuesday upheld a ruling that Saddam Hussein should hang for crimes against humanity, Iraq’s national security adviser told Reuters.

Under the statute governing the Iraqi High Tribunal, the death sentence must be carried out within the next 30 days.

With all due respect to opponants of capital punishment, if there was a guy who deserved it, it would be him.

Sister Toldjah makes an good observation.

Leftist groups like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have weighed in that they don’t want Saddam put to death. HRW opposes it on the grounds that the death penalty is always wrong especially in cases like Saddam’s where his trial allegedly wasn’t conducted “fairly” and AI opposes the DP because they believe the trial was not free of “political influence.”

Will it be televised? Should it be?

I have to admit, I am not sure if televising it is something I support.