“As much popular attention as evangelicals receive, there’s little understanding among Americans about just what an evangelical is.  Evangelicals are defined every which way, and that is among the people who even attempted to define them.  When the media reports something about ‘evangelical leaders’ like Rick Warren or James Dobson, or describes a political candidate as meeting with an evangelical group, or polls likely voters and reports that evangelicals are backing a particular candidate, many Americans honestly don’t have the faintest notion of just who belongs to that group that is being described, while others are completely off-base in their assumptions of who the report is describing.”