2010

We have just released a wonderful new tool that we have created that enables everyone to help us spread the word about our 2010 voter guides.

It is our new “Donate Your status” application, and it works with both Facebook and Twitter.

When you use either one of these services, it automatically allows you to “donate” a status update on behalf of our voter guides, one time each week between now and the coming elections.

You just click the appropriate service logo on our “Donate Your Status” page, and then give our application permission to post the message on your behalf.

That’s it!

Each week, your friends on these networks will see a message from you encouraging them to participate in our voter guide program.  And given the viral nature of Facebook and Twitter, it will help us reach out to hundreds of thousands of other potential pro-family activists, increasing our chances of success.  read more »

We’re unveiling part 2 of our “2010 Online Outreach” program.  It’s a new way we’ve created for you to help us spread the word about voter guide distribution for the upcoming elections. 

It’s our new “Voter Guide Widget”, and makes it easy for you to allow others to sign up to help distribute Christian Coalition voter guides right from your own websites.

(Click here and download yours!)

You can customize the widget dimensions to suit your own site, get your custom code and then place it on any website that you control.  In fact, you can even place a widget within a blog entry, or any place where you can post html.

That’s it!  The widget does the rest by allowing your site’s visitors to sign up.  We will let them know when voter guides are ready.

So help us spread the word by downloading your own customized widget today!

Also, if you know anyone else who has a blog or other website they can place a widget on, send them a link to this page today and encourage them to do the same.

And be sure to share this page on Facebook or Twitter!  read more »

Dear Prayer Partners,

We as Christians must never forget the Lord God and His power to redeem and deliver as we daily see the stability of America degenerating before our very eyes. Our God is alive and hears the prayers of His people. We must never let the fear of man bring a snare to any one of us because our faith is not in man but God Almighty.

Our President Roberta Combs and staff here at the Christian Coalition of America want to encourage you to continue to pray and get involved in the issues facing America and in our campaign "LETS TAKE AMERICA BACK". We need each one of you to help us spread the word to help in our endeavor to save America. We all have a Godly obligation to be involved in our freedoms that we have taken for granted through the years.

Please pray for all elected officials and the upcoming elections, starting in Washington, DC down to our local elected officials. Pray for Christians full of Godly wisdom to be elected.

Pray for Israel and her protection and our military and each family, for safety and blessings, especially for the children of our military families.

Pray for all terrorist to be exposed and dealt with. Pray that all threats to America be uncovered and dismantled.

Pray for the National debt. Please pray the fear of God Almighty fills the hearts of any one that would hurt America or take advantage of us.  read more »

The Christian Coalition of America publishes its 2009-2010 Congressional Scorecard this week and it was revealed that several Democrats had earned 100% scores which has been very unusual in recent past years.  However, since the 2008 election, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has had a huge cushion of votes to enable her to cram down the throats of the American people much extreme left-wing legislation.  She has also had the luxury to allow some of her moderate Democrats to vote against her party in key votes.   

Pelosi's cushion of votes include many in the 60 congressional districts now in Democrat hands which President George W. Bush and/or Senator John McCain won in 2006 and 2008.  Many of these congressional districts are expected to switch back to the Republicans in this November's election.  As the House Republican Leader John Boehner said recently:  "Democrats won Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008, and all we have to show for it is more debt, more government, and fewer jobs."    read more »

By now you know most of the "who won, who lost" as far as the candidates are concerned in the mega-round of primaries held in 11 states this Tuesday.  (If not, you can catch up here).  But what we're more interested in is the bigger picture.  Who are the big "winners and losers" based on how things turned out?

The Winners

Sarah Palin: Palin had a really good night.  In South Carolina's GOP gubernatorial primary, the candidate she backed, three-term state representative Nikki Haley came from fourth place to first (and within one point of winning a four-way primary without a runoff) in the little more than two weeks since Palin's endorsement.  And in Nevada, Palin endorsed another state representative Sharon Angle...who was also in last place...and also went on to finish first.  She also backed Carly Fiorina in California who won that state GOP's senate nomination.  read more »

The media has referred to it as "Super Tuesday".  But considering there were only a handful of states having primaries, it wasn't really super in size.  Although it did produce some interesting results.

Here's a roundup of the big stories...

Pennsylvania: Lights out for Specter

After switching parties for the second time in his career, Specter is now a man without a country, so to speak.  So much for Obama having the influence to pull Specter over the finish line.  In fact, that's the other "big" news of the night, that Obama is now 0-4 when it comes to big endorsements (remember Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts?).

As for how this impacts the race in the fall, you’ll now have Joe Sestak, who’s not the unpopular Specter, but who is more liberal, running against conservative Pat Toomey.  Now Pennsylvania is no red state, but it’s not really a blue state either.  It’s purple.  If this were a presidential election year, it would be better for the Democrat, but it’s not.  It’s a mid-term when voters are becoming very concerned about fiscal issues, and long-time fiscal conservative Toomey should be able to effectively hang the liberal, big and expensive government label around Sestaks’ neck.

Advantage: Toomey.  read more »

This week's retirement by Wisconsin Democrat David Obey spells more trouble for the Dems this fall.  First, it's yet another open seat that they will have to defend, and it's not a "solid blue" seat by any means.  Second, it says something about how Democrat leaders are reading the November tea leaves if a major committee chairman retires, (Obey chairs the powerful House Appropriations Committee).  It says that either he thinks he'll have trouble winning another term, or he's pretty sure that the GOP will take back the House and he'll no longer be a major committee chairman...or both.

In any event, it's getting interesting.

Here's a Google map put together by Michael Barone at the Washington Examiner which details each major congressional retirement so far.

View Democrats exiting the sinking ship? 2010 in a larger map

We're still conducting our poll of attitudes among Christian conservatives about the upcoming 2010 elections. 

The question: "Who much do you think you will participate in the 2010 elections in terms of volunteering and donations as compared to the past?

Possible responses:

• Much more involved
• Somewhat more involved
• About the same
• Somewhat less involved
• Much less involved

Click here and tell us how involved you plan to be.

Add one more to the ongoing list of side-effects of ObamaCare: increased likelihood of Americans getting involved in politics.

In what is surely not music to the ears of congressional Democrats, a new Rasmussen poll, 38% of voters say that they are "more likely to contribute time or money to a political campaign this year compared to previous years".

The poll also indicates that this newfound activism is more likely to benefit the GOP, if for no other reason that it finds Republicans with a seven point lead on the "generic ballot" question, where voters are asked which party's candidate they would support for Congress if the election were held today.  46% chose the GOP, while 39% picked the Democrats.  Republicans have lead Democrats on that question in this poll since June of last year...which is about the time the health care debate heated up.  read more »

Monday, Indiana Democrat Senator Evan Bayh dropped a bombshell on the political world and announced he would not run for re-election this fall - just one day before the deadline to file in that state.

Given that Bayh was a two term incumbent and had about thriteen million dollars in his campaign account, he was the strongest bet the Democrats had to hold the seat this fall.  In fact, in spite of his advantages, the seat was rated as only "slightly" leaning in the Democrats direction, (due in part to the fact that Indiana is generally more of a Republican state).  That's changed now.  Within hours of Bayh's announcement, pundits have switched the contest to "slightly Republican" odds.

Also, from a pro-life standpoint, it increases the odds of another pick-up in the Senate, given that Bayh was pro-abortion, (and both of the leading GOP contenders are solidly pro-life).

Here's a roundup from the pundit class...

Susan Ferrechio: With Bayh's retirement, there are now eight Senate seats currently held by Democrats that Republicans may grab this fall. Seats in Nevada, Colorado, North Dakota, Illinois, Arkansas, Pennsylvania and Delaware were already looking vulnerable. Bayh's decision follows the retirements of Sens. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.  read more »