Wyrick's 'Motivation' of Evangelical Voters

During carter's presidency, randall balmer says that wyrick continued searching for that holy grail of issues. And in 19 78, five years after rove ad, it finally hit him. Wyrick was convinced that the issue that would mobilize evangelicals into a voting block for the republican party is abortion. I think that evangelicals really didn't expect abortion to be a common practice. He teamed up with some prominent anti abortion activists, including a guy named frank shaper. While today frank schaper is a progressive christian activist and a vocal critic of the anti abortion evangelical platform,. back in the 19 seventies, shaper was not only anti abortion, he was on the front