Evangelical leaders, including Focus on the Family head James Dobson, slammed the GOP during a post-election panel discussion today while claiming Democrats have "moved into the vacuum that the Republicans have left" for so-called values voters. "If the Republicans are not going to support those principles, then somebody else is," Dobson told the panel. "We've been harder today on the Republicans than we are on the Democrats because in fact it's the Republicans who dropped the ball here." Though there was much speculation that white evangelicals would abandon the GOP this year, they ended up voting for the GOP in similar numbers to 2004, while other religious groups cut more than usual towards Democrats.

The Christianity Today headline below just about says it all: