Reply #12: Sounds Familiar

[RoyGBiv]

I originally come from a small town in SE Oklahoma (of course, aren't most towns in OK small towns? :-)) and the Baptist Church ran pretty much everything. They'd even use their buses to go get people from home and take them to the polling places.

A couple years before I moved, I worked on a campaign to get a law passed that allowed restaurants to serve mixed drinks (this is like 1998), and the Baptist Church just went nuts. Luckily, there was a regional college in the town, and we worked it so the vote took place while college was in session, and we got a lot of new voters from there. The measure passed, but just barely.