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Coalition of America, a 501(c)(4) organization, is the successor to the
original Christian Coalition created in 1989 by religious broadcaster
and former presidential candidate Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson, and is
a US Christian advocacy group, which includes Christian fundamentalists,
neo-evangelicals and conservative charismatics. While labeling itself as
the Christian Coalition, the organization represents certain viewpoints
among numbers of Christians in the United States, but Christians with
other beliefs disagree with the organization's ideas. The CCA's values
are consistent with those of the Christian right. Following a
well-funded but failed bid for the U.S. presidency in 1988, religious
broadcaster and political commentator Pat Robertson used the remains of
his campaign machinery to jump-start the creation of a voter
mobilization effort dubbed the Christian Coalition