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Facing a primary threat from a Democrat with strong gay support, Monserrate has sought to hitch himself to evangelical voters in his Queens district.

It's really unfortunate that voters in the South — and Evangelical voters in particular — continue to get their ideas about Mormons from gossip and hearsay.

There has been much handwringing in the evangelical world over the seemingly high levels of support for Donald Trump among self - proclaimed evangelical voters in Republican primaries.

Not exact matches

In recent months, those voters have consolidated their support behind another freshman senator, Texas» Ted Cruz, whose own belief and rhetoric more closely aligns with the state's conservative strain of evangelical Christianity.

Not just that, but Trump won 81 percent of white born - again and evangelical Christian voters in 2016, and they might not take too well to being inundated with stories about Trump's alleged affair with a porn star.

But in the early primary state of South Carolina, with voters scheduled to go to the polls on Saturday and candidates working the state furiously this week, local evangelical pastors are using their influence to rally church members towards salvation, not electioneering.

As long as the Republicans were winning presidential elections with the robust support of evangelical voters, it seemed that evangelicals had swept the field of Protestant religion in the United States.

In addition, she would certainly appoint progressive judges to the Supreme Court, which is regularly polled to be among the highest concerns for evangelical voters this year (see box).

Whether or not Obama has been spiritually «reborn» in the evangelical sense, his spiritual counselors say the president's faith has helped shape his first term in ways that haven't been appreciated by voters or the news media.

CNN: Passing significant test, Gingrich wins more S.C. evangelicals than rivals If there were any doubts that Newt Gingrich, a thrice - married convert to Catholicism, could connect with the evangelical voters who make up the Republican Party base, Saturday's South Carolina primary put them to rest, with the former House Speaker winning twice as many evangelical votes as anyone else in the race.

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.

Unlike in 2004, when John Kerry - a former altar boy - lost Catholic voters, the Obama campaign had a robust religious outreach program aimed largely at Catholic and evangelical voters.

Nearly half of evangelical voters go for one guy — the most rabid conservative in the bunch — despite the fact that he is highly unelectable by every reasonable measure.

About 73 percent of white evangelical voters said they would vote for Romney in 2012, while 78 percent stand behind Trump today.

In 1998, at the height of the Clinton impeachment battle, evangelical voters were constantly confronting accusations from their secular, leftist friends that «it was all politics,» that evangelicals were less concerned with Bill Clinton's indiscretions than they were about his party identification.

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.

But the next in line is South Carolina, where 60 % of voters in the last Republican presidential primary identified as evangelicals.

(CNN)-- One of the most important sub-plots in the Iowa caucuses was which candidate would win the support of Iowa's evangelical voters, who comprised 60 percent of the vote in 2008, and according to the CNN entrance poll, comprised 58 % of the vote Tuesday night.

«It's definitely true that in many ways, white evangelicals and black Protestants or black evangelicals, or evangelicals from other racial and ethnic minorities have a lot in common,» the Pew Research Center's associate director, Greg Smith, told NPR for its exploration of the true number of evangelical voters.

According to Pew, half of white evangelical voters (52 %) think Trump would be a good / great president, while 3 in 10 think he would be a poor / terrible president (29 %).

As a wave of disappointed voters announced on Twitter that Trump's election has led them to drop the label evangelical, den Dulk speculated that evangelical believers who voted for Clinton may have been less likely to identify that way in exit polls, widening the born - again gap between the two candidates.

A recent Pew survey found that 56 percent of Catholic registered voters and 89 percent of black Protestant registered voters (two - thirds of whom are evangelicals, according to Pew) side with Clinton in the upcoming election.

Born out of his own background as an Evangelical Christian, Snyder established the first ever YDA Faith & Values Initiative in 2011 to provide an opportunity for young voters to make a connection between their faith convictions and their political involvement within the Democratic Party.

«A strong values narrative attracted many in 2008, including many religious voters who had long eluded the Democrats,» the Rev. Jim Wallis, a progressive evangelical who advises the Obama White House, wrote in an election analysis memo on Wednesday.

The problem is that Huckabee's support of a national sales tax (the FairTax) and his habit of engaging in identity politics gestures makes it difficult for him to win over voters outside his evangelical base.

A successful populist conservatism has to combine evangelical voters with a large share of moderately conservative voters in order to have a serious chance at the Republican nomination.

They do, however, follow the direction of the cultural groups to which they have some residual attachment: for example, traditionalist evangelicals who voted for Perot supported Republicans in congressional contests, while secular Perot voters supported Democrats for the House and Senate.

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.

While half of white evangelical voters (52 %) think Trump would be a good / great president, 3 in 10 think he would be a poor / terrible president (29 %).

«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.

Meanwhile, more than a quarter of white evangelical voters gave him a failing grade of a D or F. Trump's overall campaign grade is the lowest among any presidential candidate — winning or losing — since Pew began collecting data in 1988.

Among white evangelicals voters — one of Trump's strongest demographics — one in five (20 %) graded the president - elect's conduct during the campaign at an A, while a plurality (31 %) gave him a B, according to new Pew Research Center data provided to CT..

While the Religious Right had been in cardiac arrest, at the last minute white evangelical voters wheeled in the crash cart and restored its rhythms.

Lindsay says that the motherhood angle could be refreshing to evangelical voters, who constitute a majority of the Republican electorate in early states like Iowa and South Carolina.

Luckily for the Republicans, the majority of these evangelical voters think Obama is a Muslim so they would be forced to vote for Mitt in the general election.

Rodriguez joined assistant editor Morgan Lee and editor - in - chief Mark Galli to discuss why the church should not retreat from culture, what led 60 percent of Latino evangelicals to vote for Trump, and why Christians should register as independent voters.

But there was some question about whether Obama's support with evangelicals would draw one out of three evangelical voters (as Clinton did in 1992) or one out of four (as Kerry did in 2004).

In addition, one must also realize that these polls only address Republican primary voters, but there are significant groups of evangelicals who are Democrats or Independents, so the anti-Trump vote amongst all evangelicals in the country might reach 80 - 90 % once non-Republican primary voters are accounted foIn addition, one must also realize that these polls only address Republican primary voters, but there are significant groups of evangelicals who are Democrats or Independents, so the anti-Trump vote amongst all evangelicals in the country might reach 80 - 90 % once non-Republican primary voters are accounted foin the country might reach 80 - 90 % once non-Republican primary voters are accounted for.

First, while Trump has in some states carried a plurality of evangelical voters, the same data reveals that, on average, 64 % of evangelicals in all southern states voted for someone other than Trump.

Health care was the No. 1 policy priority for white evangelical voters (and the American public as a whole) in the recent election, the Pew Research Center found.

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.

Nice try Ralph, but regardless of how you try to spin this, evangelical or not, religious voters are not the most reasonable or rational voters in our population as they do in fact tend to put their beliefs over other considerations.

For example, Charles Krauthammer muses on why evangelicals prefer Trump and in the debate last night Megyn Kelly referenced a close association between Trump and evangelical voters.

The first President Bush watched fundamentalist and evangelical voters emerge as a powerful constituency in 1990 and 1991.

Evangelical Voters and the 2016 Election As in every election year, CT's politics coverage drew heavy readership.

The reality is 65 million people voted for Trump... and while a lot of those votes came from people who were legitimately frustrated with both political parties and wanted someone to shake up the system, and a lot of votes cam from traditional doctrinaire Republican voters who held their nose and voted for the guy because they wanted a tax cut, and other voters were pseudo-moralistic Evangelical hypocrites who wanted to reward McConnell for STEALING Merrick Garland's Supreme Court seat, there were a whole lot of Trump voters — including a lot of voters from Pennsylvania's «T» — who voted for Trump because they are racist, white supremicist xenophobes who saw in Trump someone who spoke their language and would «make america great again» (read «make america WHITE again»).

Last night was no exception: we covered topics ranging from the politics of Obama's gay marriage support to the changing demographics of North Carolina to the effect of Romney's Mormonism on evangelical voters, with plenty more in between.

«This kind of performance does not win Catholic, Evangelical, Orthodox Jewish, Tea Party or other conservative voters to the Republican Party, and has led to some of the splits the party has seen in recent years in the 23rd Congressional District, the 2010 gubernatorial race and most recently the 26th Congressional District.»

People who obviously changed their voting habits to elect a Democratic majority (male voters split 50/50 last night, a third of Evangelicals voted for Democrats) were taking a chance on a party in which Hillary is now the standard bearer.

This is in contrast with white, non-Hispanic evangelical Protestant registered voters, among whom a solid majority supports Romney (74 %).