Bush loses favor with young evangelicals

God only knows how this could be, but between 2001 and 2005, President Bush's approval rating with evangelical Christians ages 18 and 29 -- people just like me -- ranged from 70 percent to 87 percent. The big news from the Pew Forum is that Bush's favoritism with young evangelicals has fallen to 45 percent.

Members of this group remain fiercely conservative in your politics -- supporting the war in Iraq and capital punishment and opposing socially liberal causes -- and aren't likely to ankle to Republican Party, the report says, even if evangelicals can't pick a presidential candidate to support in '08.

But what shocks me is that Bush still enjoys even that much favor with my co-religionists.