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As Romney's and Huntsman's ability to win evangelical votes in the approaching South Carolina presidential primary has become a major question in the presidential campaign, the Pew survey finds that half of Mormons believe that evangelical Christians are unfriendly toward them.

Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, who rode evangelical support to victory in the first - in - the - nation Iowa caucuses earlier this month, each got 21 % of the evangelical vote in South Carolina.

George W. Bush won a third of the evangelical vote in Iowa in 2000, splitting that vote with Steve Forbes and more explicitly social conservative candidates like Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes.

«Let's say that Muslims and Evangelicals both voted in a state, democratically, to ban gambling and drinking alcohol on the grounds that they both believe it is immoral,» Lombardi said.

Sen. Barack Obama told reporters Saturday that he is optimistic about winning the evangelical vote in November.

Not exact matches

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.

Several major evangelical figures, including Jerry Falwell Jr., and Franklin Graham, both of whom serve on Donald Trump's unofficial evangelical advisory council, have spoken in support of Moore, and, according to the latest Fox News poll, 65 percent of white evangelicals in Alabama still plan to vote for him.

As for the «evangelicals» who hitched their wagon to the blasphemous Romney thinking that Jesus would have voted for someone who openly denies His Diety and sovereignty, and who hijacked the discussion of faith in this country to hide their actual agendas of hate, racism, division, and greed, the election result is another lesson to them to not drag Holy God down into the vile realm of man's political systems.

But consider this: as R.R. Reno noted, in Iowa, 60 % of the evangelical vote went to Catholic and Mormon candidates.

Before the 1970s, evangelicals voted as often for Democrats as for Republicans, but in the wake of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, a Supreme Court decision ending prayer in public schools, and the legalisation of abortion in 1973, the Republican Party recognised an opportunity to build a new coalition of Christian conservatives upset with the cultural changes sweeping the country.

(1943), was voted by the American evangelical periodical Christianity Today in 2006 as one of the top 50 books «which had shaped evangelicals».

According to the polls, Donald Trump is winning more of the evangelical vote than the previous Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, did in 2012.

My great concern for evangelicals in the United States, whether they are pragmatically voting for Trump or withdrawing from politics altogether, is how they are embracing fear as a legitimate motive for followers of Jesus Christ.

Religious historian Thomas S Kidd writes, «In American pop culture parlance, «evangelical» now basically means whites who consider themselves religious and who vote Republican.»

There's been much speculation about whether white evangelicals, who have accounted for more than a third of Republican votes in recent elections, will turn out in force for Mitt Romney, a Mormon who for years supported abortion and gay rights.

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.

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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.

So I suppose we could expect evangelicals to also be voting for Democrats in numbers that would make their R / D difference statistically insignificant?

The moral of this story is that evangelicals in Iowa saw all of the white horses running and voted for one.

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

Actually, Ralph, «when commentators prognosticate about the «evangelical vote» we might ask how this country has drifted so far from the intent of the Founding Fathers by granting Christianity such a prominent place in the political tent.

More than 3 in 4 white evangelicals like Dobson are voting Trump this November, according to the Pew Research Center.

More than three - quarters of self - identified white evangelicals plan to vote for Donald Trump in the fall (78 %).

Fifty - seven percent of Iowans who voted in the caucuses this year were evangelical Christians.

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

«In their comments, some evangelical leaders suggested that voting for a third party candidate or abstaining for that office was futile or a vote for the winning ticket,» noted the NAE on the «lesser of two evils» choice.

Evangelical churches that frequently support conservative candidates are finally admitting something the rest of us have known for some time: Their young adult members are abandoning church in significant numbers and taking their voting power with them.

I am a progressive Democrat, I plan to vote for Obama again, and proud to call myself an Evangelical in the true sense.

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.

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Keel carries no weapons in the culture war, and he figures that his people, hardly stereotypical evangelicals, vote Democratic or Green as often as Republican.

More importantly, this race will be a chance (the second in 4 years) for evangelicals to send a message to the GOP — you can not take our votes for granted!

Romney has done little to give evangelicals a reason to vote for him in the fall.

Piper refers to Trump's «divisive rhetorical style... and his reckless Twitter form of leadership,» and says, as his third point, that a «huge percentage» of white evangelicals voted for Trump «even though the character issues were screaming to be taken more seriously» (Statistically, around 80 percent of white evangelicals voted for President Trump in the 2016 election.).

Evangelicals are expected to account for about 40 % of the Republican vote on Tuesday's primary in Florida.

No candidate had even 25 % of evangelical support in the most recent poll, raising the possibility that Iowa's evangelical vote will be pretty diluted this week.

(CNN)- With former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's announcement this weekend that he won't seek the presidency, one of the largest voting blocs in the Republican Party is now officially up for grabs: evangelical Christians.

With Huckabee on the sidelines, other Republican White House hopefuls will have a better chance of picking up evangelical votes, which accounted for more than half the GOP electorate in Iowa and South Carolina in 2008, according to polling.

If Evangelicals are looking for more authentic personal testimonies regarding the faith of political candidates, what part of Romney's stated belief in Joseph Smith's revelation in the forests of Pennsylvania would sway the vote of an Evangelical who adheres to a uniquely inspired Bible?

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.

Yet evangelicals turned out in droves to vote for Trump, who has certainly broken a few of those commandments.

Most evangelical laypeople say they are voting for Trump — though most not for Trump — while most evangelical leaders have not supported his candidacy in past polls.

The same was true in Iowa, where 29 percent of non-evangelicals voted for Trump, compared with 22 percent of 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.

For there are there are many evangelical votes, many candidates who win their support, and a multitude of motivations for their engagement in the rough - and - tumble of American politics.

However, in South Carolina about a third (34 %) of self - identified evangelicals voted for Trump, more than the 29 percent of non-evangelicals.

More non-evangelicals (38 %) than evangelicals (27 %) in New Hampshire also voted for Trump.

Meanwhile, white evangelicals voting Democrat this year are dramatically doing so in response to Trump's candidacy.

In years past, I generally had to encourage evangelicals to avoid scorning fellow evangelicals who voted Democrat.