A lot has been written about former Bush staffer David Kuo, whose new book, Tempting Faith, reveals that Karl Rove views evangelical Republicans as a bunch of “ridiculous” “nuts.” However, Kuo’s book also contains a more damning revelation: the White House targeted funding for “faith-based” organizations to groups that were friendly to the administration, specifically “Christian” groups who shared Bush’s conservative religious beliefs. In the book, Kuo quotesa member of the grant review panel as saying she stopped looking at applications from “those non-Christian groups,â€� and so did many of her colleagues. Federal law prohibits government agencies from allocating funds based on the basis of political or religious belief. And yet, according to Kuo’s book, that’s just what the Bush administration did.

Meanwhile, two new polls show support shifting away from the GOP among evangelical whites—an important part of the Republican base. A Pew poll found that just 57 percent of white evangelicals were inclined to vote Republican, a 21-point drop. A Gallup poll conducted at the same time found religous whites as likely to vote Democratic as Republican. The midterms can’t get here soon enough.