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And here's your shmoop use your brought to you by political

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parties where the cool kids gathered it dance and disagree with one another card [people on dance floor and DJ clapping]

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here's passage... beginning a late nineties Ebenezer floods Christian leaders urging

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their congregations come involved in political process....

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which of the following most directly contributed to the trend described in excerpt....

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well shmoop believes in the right to vote young old male female everyone should [Selection of people appear to vote]

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have the opportunity to step up to a ballot box and stuff it with whatever

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write-in candidate makes them laugh I won't do you think we ended up with the [Puppet waving]

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president named Grover well that's why large interest groups spend even larger

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some of the money so we voted to their side every Election Day and today we're

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talking about a powerful interest group in the 1980's the religious right so

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like plumber in his prime get crackin for starters we know that like most toys [Plumber fixing kitchen pipes]

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clothes and other things mass-produced this answer is not made in America the

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manufacturing job sectors suffered throughout the 1980s as globalization

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increase China and India entered the global workforce and visco offered [Workers dancing at disco]

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factory workers and alternative career considering these trends developed after

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the late 1970s we have to conclude it wasn't a driving force in the emergence

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of the religious right how about B the emergence of personal computers

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technology so you might find a computer in American households in the late [Computer appears outside house]

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nineteen seventies it's use was limited that people everywhere we're

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just learning how to use a mouse Batman computers weren't seen as a way to [Woman using a computer mouse]

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connect with one another so people like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell use

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other modes of media to spread their message you know things like Christian [Christian books appear on shelf]

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bookstores special magazine and Bible colleges accomplished what a 30-second

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video of a cat on a treadmill can use today which is uniting all our things of [Cat walking on treadmill]

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happiness though not going to lie using cats at the edge so we can give answer

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be the boost see seems appealing those words big

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government go with the Republican Party like a clown in carpool lanes but we [Clowns driving car in carpool lane]

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have to think about what that means the religious right wanted to be best buds

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with the Republican Party so it wouldn't make my sense for them to demand big

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government which Republicans hate the way Batman really hates Robin mono I [Robin appears from cubicle]

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else would he make me dressed like that so while we can say sayonara to see that

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leave beat the increase in political scandals and foreign policy failures the

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1970s was a perplexing time to be an American

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the Vietnam War seemed like it would never end hostages were held in Iran and [Vietnam soldiers in battle]

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a president turned out to be tricky dick some considered it a period

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of moral decay which is like tooth decay except your dentist can to guilt you [Dentists performing procedure on patient]

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into being a better person psychedelic 70s were fun for some but also

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encouraged the call to return to the good old times the fear factor of

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political scandals and foreign policy failures made people realize their [People surrounding a campfire]

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Christian roots that may see the right decision now back to the most important

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issue at hand anyone else think President Grover

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deserves another term yes [President Grover giving speech and waves]

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