That‘s what FotG David Frum’s site NewMajority.com is about assembling, and this is the best piece of practical analysis in that direction I’ve seen there. This guy argues you have to start with this fact:

That’s right: according to the exit poll, 26% of the electorate is white evangelicals, and 74% of them voted for McCain. McCain pulled slightly less than 46% of the vote, so about four-in-ten of McCain’s voters were white evangelicals

To put it in perspective, white evangelicals are nearly twice as important to Republicans as African-Americans are for Democrats. Despite the surge in African-American turnout and the record high percentage Obama received from those voters, blacks comprised only 23% of the winning coalition.

This documents what people have long suspected: the white evangelical community is now the Republican Party’s base. And it creates the challenge all conservatives and Republicans need to answer, how to build a stable majority coalition by building on that base.

Read the whole thing. A very good think piece.

Confucius, Œc. Vol.

Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.