Sen. Barack Obama made a frank appeal to religious voters at last night's CNN/CBC presidential debate in South Carolina, noting that the Democratic Party has all too often ceded faith ground, essentially buying the Religious Right's argument that conservative and moderate Christians only care about abortion and homosexuality. But as Obama points out, this has been a mistake, as the issues and the demographics of faith are broadening -- every day the FPL News has a story showing this change.

Now that a Democratic candidate is directly appealing to evangelicals on national television in the days immediately preceding a primary, perhaps the networks will bother to count Democratic-voting evangelicals on their way out of the polls on Jan. 26.