Sentences with phrase «evangelical vote among»

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Perkins's remarks reflect a wider trend among white evangelicals (81 percent of whom voted for Trump in the 2016 election): Many choose to disregard Trump's decidedly debauched, decades - old public persona to focus on his anti-LBGTQ and anti-abortion stances.

But because of political circumstances and the way Gingrich parried a question about the accusation during Thursday's CNN debate, the episode may cause relatively little fallout among evangelical voters, who are expected to make up about 60 % of the vote in Saturday's South Carolina primary.

The vote was split among a field of evangelicals in every race that he mentioned.

While a majority of the evangelicals who voted in 2016 supported Trump, there can be no doubt that his candidacy and campaign caused a sharp divide among Christian voters — if you need proof, just scroll through Facebook or Twitter or bring up the new president at church.

As someone who voted for one of the very few pro-life Democratic politicians left in my home state in the last election, I would love for there to be more openness among Democrats to the views of Evangelicals.

A new survey from LifeWay Research (full release here) has found that 57 % of Protestant pastors plan to vote for Governor Romney compared with 17 % for President Obama (and it's higher among evangelicals).

In recent decades, white evangelicals — and yes, that's a statistically identifiable voting bloc and I'm using it as such in this article — have been among the most consistent supporters of the Republican Party.

Among white evangelicals, Democrats won just 20 - percent of the vote, less even than in 2004, when that group flocked to the polls to support George W. Bush, an evangelical who took religious outreach to new levels.

For example, among traditionalist evangelicals, men gave 85 percent of their vote to Dole, compared with 64 percent for women, a twenty - one point difference; comparable figures for traditionalist Catholics were 58 and 47 percent, respectively.

As one might expect, the gap was even larger among modernists, with modernist evangelical men backing Dole with 61 percent of their votes, while their female counterparts gave him only 35 percent.

Among white evangelicals who voted in the election, only one - third (31 %) said they were «very satisfied» with the options for president, while 27 percent were «fairly satisfied.»

Among voters who attend services at least monthly, only 16 percent of white evangelicals, 22 percent of Catholics, and 5 percent of white mainline Protestants said that their churches provided information on voting, the election, or specific candidates this year.

It's puzzling in the same way that Mitt Romney's campaign was also successful among evangelical voters, despite the fact that one - third of them (32 %) said they are less likely to vote for a Mormon.

Cruz performed higher among evangelicals, winning one - third of the vote (34 %), while Donald Trump (22 %) and Florida senator Marco Rubio (21 %) were nearly tied.

«For example, the gap among voting blocs that gave a B or better to the Republicans versus the Democrats was greater among white evangelicals than all other religious groups and all voters, as reported in these data,» he wrote.

Among white evangelical weekly church attenders planning to vote for Clinton: 25 % support her strongly 75 % support her not strongly [Pew Research Center # 8]

In 2012, Rick Santorum won Iowa on the strength of his support among evangelical voters, but he got only 8 percent of the votes of New Hampshire Catholics — despite being Catholic himself.

45 % of white evangelical Trump supporters are voting FOR Trump 51 % are voting AGAINST Clinton [Note: This matches the split among Trump supporters overall.]

Among white evangelicals planning to vote for Clinton: 35 % said their vote was for Clinton 59 % said their vote was against Trump

Abortion ranks low among white evangelicals» top election concerns (% saying each issue is «very important» in deciding who to vote for):

Among the top reasons evangelicals expressed for voting for Trump included enhancing our national security and a renewed commitment to a culture of life.

The survey found that resistance to Mormon candidates was even higher among two groups: liberal Democrats and evangelicals, who overwhelmingly vote Republican.