Signs of the Apocalypse

As taken up in the comments to a post below, some speculation has emerged in the last few years that evangelical Christians (which, for polling purposes, apparently includes Catholics) will begin moving into the ranks of Democratic voters beginning this election cycle or the next. The rationale seems to be that conservative Christians have begun to feel used and deceived by Bush and the Republicans' appropriation of all things God, and that they identify more with Democrats' muddled theology and acceptance of difference. I know at least one devout Anglican professor who thinks the Democrats ought to drop everything and begin courting the evangelical vote post-haste, since social reform, benevolence, and liberalism are the bailiwick of the Democratic party. I guess that strategy depends for its efficacy upon whether heretofore Republican voters are pre- or post-millennialists?

Anyway, debate.