Editing Focus on the Family (section)

===2008 presidential campaign===
In the [[2008 United States presidential election]], Focus on the Family shifted from supporting [[Mike Huckabee]], to not supporting any candidate, to accepting the Republican ticket once [[Sarah Palin]] was added. Prior to the election, a television and letter campaign was launched predicting terrorist attacks in four U.S. cities and equating the U.S. with [[Nazi Germany]]. This publicity was condemned by the [[Anti-Defamation League]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0810/28/sitroom.02.html |work=CNN |title=CNN.com Video |access-date=August 24, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828202628/http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0810/28/sitroom.02.html |archive-date=August 28, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> Within a month before the general election, Focus on the Family began distributing a 16-page letter titled ''Letter from 2012 in Obama's America'', which describes an imagined American future in which "many of our freedoms have been taken away by a liberal [[Supreme Court of the United States]] and a majority of Democrats in both the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] and the [[United States Senate|Senate]]."<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Gorski|first1=Eric|last2=Zoll|first2=Rachel|date=October 28, 2008|title=Christian right intensifies attacks on Obama {{!}} Newsweek News {{!}} Newsweek.com|url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/165599|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081028113955/http://www.newsweek.com/id/165599|archive-date=October 28, 2008|access-date=October 8, 2020|website=Newsweek}}</ref> According to ''[[USA Today]]'', the letter "is part of an escalation in rhetoric from Christian right activists" trying to paint Democratic Party presidential nominee Senator [[Barack Obama]] in a negative light.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-10-27-christian-right-obama_N.htm | work=[[USA Today]] | title=Christian right's mailings depict disastrous future under Obama | date=October 28, 2008 | access-date=May 2, 2010 | first1=Eric | last1=Gorski | first2=Rachel | last2=Zoll | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604035021/http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-10-27-christian-right-obama_N.htm | archive-date=June 4, 2011 | url-status=live}}</ref>

Focus on the Family Action supported Senator [[Saxby Chambliss]] (R-Ga.) in his successful December 2, 2008, runoff election win. The organization, according to the ''[[Colorado Independent]]'', donated $35,310 in radio ads to the Chambliss runoff campaign effort. As the ''Independent'' reports, the Focus-sponsored ads were aired in about a dozen Georgia markets. The commercials were produced in the weeks after Focus laid off 202 employees, some 20 percent of its workforce, because of the national economic crisis.<ref>[http://coloradoindependent.com/16649/chambliss-got-help-from-focus-on-the-family-as-well-as-musgrave Chambliss got help from Focus on the Family, as well as Musgrave] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915093613/http://coloradoindependent.com/16649/chambliss-got-help-from-focus-on-the-family-as-well-as-musgrave |date=September 15, 2012}}. Coloradoindependent.com (December 3, 2008). Retrieved May 21, 2012.</ref>