Evangelical voters have traditionally voted consistently along Republican Party lines, and they have been drawn to the polls by hot button social issues like abortion and same-sex marriage. Because of this, they are a valuable constituency. The power of evangelical support was illustrated most recently by the meteoric rise of Mike Huckabee.

But a new generation of Christian evangelical activists is shaping the election race by asking both Republican and Democratic candidates to support a broader conservative platform, including attention global warming, AIDS and poverty. The younger evangelical constituency is moving further away from the GOP, according to a study by the Pew Forum on Religion.

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