congregations agree with Democrats on most issues.
Remember when Ronald Reagan campaign manager and "Geraldo" regular Ed Rollins let the truth silp out about how Republicans bribe the clergy to help "win" elections?
From
http://archives.cjr.org/year/94/1/cynicism.aspColumbia Journalism Review January/February 1994
"Insider Cynicism: Ed Rollins Meets the Press, by Christopher Hanson
Rollins is, or was, a Republican political consultant. The Sperling breakfast is a Washington institution of sorts -- held some 2,600 times over the past twenty-seven years -- in which journalists, hosted by The Christian Science Monitor's Godfrey "Budge" Sperling, gently question figures like Rollins and report the responses they find newsworthy.
At a November 9 Sperling breakfast, Rollins, boasting about how he had just helped win a governorship for New Jersey's Christine Todd Whitman, said the campaign had spent about $500,000 to suppress the black vote. He said GOP operatives had made payments to Democratic precinct workers in black areas on condition they sit on their hands on election day. And he said the Whitman campaign had contributed to church charities in return for black ministers keeping mum on the virtues of Democratic incumbent James Florio.