Sentences with phrase «evangelical voters voted»

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candidate, more than 50 million voters, including, crucially, millions of evangelicals, voted for the dimwit.

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.

«At that time, nearly three - quarters of white evangelical Protestant registered voters said they planned to vote for Romney, including one - quarter who «strongly» supported him.

Given the controversy, it is worth exploring how evangelicals, and religious voters generally, ultimately chose to vote.

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

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.

Just prior to Cruz's concession, polls showed anywhere between 16 percent to 24 percent of churchgoing evangelical voters faced with a Trump vs. Clinton matchup, would choose to stay home or vote for a third - party candidate.

(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.

According to a Pew Research Study from earlier this month, only 16 percent of evangelical voters said they would vote for her.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

The answer is closer to the latter: Exit polls say 26 percent of American voters called themselves evangelical or born - again Christians, and of these, 74 percent voted for McCain, with 25 percent voting for Obama.

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 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.

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.

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»).

However, Black Protestant voters, majorities of whom are Evangelical, voted 96 percent for Pro-Choice Democrat Al Gore and only 4 percent for George Bush, the Pro-Life candidate.

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.