When did I become an "Evangelical" voter?

[srmom]

When pundits talk about gaining the evangelical vote they are referring to the extremely right wing social conservatives (neoconservatives). I'm not sure how much of the population they make up but they seem to make up a large portion of the extremely wealthy (at least where I'm from.)

Actually, from watching the coverage of the primaries this year (I admit it, even though it's like watching paint dry, I'm a junkie), when they speak of the "evangelical" voters of the republican party, they are talking about the Huckabee type voters who are voting a cause (right to life, constitutional amendment on marriage, etc.), and they have tended to be statistically in the more rural states and the less populated rural areas. CNN has a really good method of showing where the voting districts are leaning, and McCain has tended to garner the votes from the more highly populous and wealthier districts.

Neocon's are viewed more as the pro-war, Cheney, Rumsfeld types and there was much more talk of neocons in the last election. I got this off of a website:

neoconservatives -

favor an aggressive unilateral U.S. foreign policy. They generally believe that elites protect democracy from mob rule

I think the people you are talking about are fiscal conservatives and they are much more moderate in their social views, which is what I would consider myself.

IMO, the conservative republican party is splintering between the social conservatives (being branded as evangelicals) and the fiscal conservatives. I'm sick of being considered a right wing wacko and wish the party would move back towards center. But that's just me.