What now for the Evangelical movement?

Now that two of the biggest social conservative presidential hopefuls for 2008 have failed to even hold on to their Senate seats, where does this leave the relationship between the republican party and the evangelical movement? None of the big republican possibles for 2008 (Guiliani, Romney, and McCain) fit the social conservative mold, though McCain has been jogging towards the right on many social issues. Talking heads have been talking about the Republicans running either Allen or Santorum anyway, and that does seem plausible given their gracious concessions. Evangelical disgust at the party for its scandals have also, however, been a big issue. More interestingly, some of the democrats have also seemed to pick up chunks of the Evangelical vote. McCaskill picked up 35% (CNN exit poll) and Casey 41% of the Evangelical vote. On the other hand, however, with the ouster of moderate Republicans like Lincoln Chafee, the rump GOP certainly has the ability to move further right, though the political wisdom of such a move would be questionable, so who knows. All that is certain is that this election has dealt a major blow to the influence of the hard core religious right. Hopefully, the 2008 election wont be dominated by these lunatics.