Meanwhile, white
evangelicals voting Democrat this year are dramatically doing so in response to Trump's candidacy.
During the Obama election years, as many as a quarter of
evangelicals voted Democrat; with Clinton, it was nearly 10 percentage points less than that.
Not exact matches
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.
Evangelical churches tell their members how to
vote, and it sure isn't for
democrats.
So I suppose we could expect
evangelicals to also be
voting for
Democrats in numbers that would make their R / D difference statistically insignificant?
I am a progressive
Democrat, I plan to
vote for Obama again, and proud to call myself an
Evangelical in the true sense.
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.
I've been wondering: Can I still be an
evangelical and
vote for a
democrat?
In years past, I generally had to encourage
evangelicals to avoid scorning fellow
evangelicals who
voted Democrat.
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.
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.
«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.
Though a smaller sample, 75 percent of
Democrats with
evangelical beliefs plan to
vote for Clinton.
Still an Obama supporter, (albeit a bit less enthusiastically), I'd like to see him make a good case for why
evangelicals can
vote for a
democrat.
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.
As a young
evangelical myself, I confess I have grown tired... no, weary... of responding to comments like these with some honest suggestions for how my fellow
evangelicals might avoid said retirement, only to be discounted and disparaged for believing the earth is more than 6,000 years old, for
voting for
Democrats from time to time, and for daring to serve communion to gays and lesbians.
The survey found that resistance to Mormon candidates was even higher among two groups: liberal
Democrats and
evangelicals, who overwhelmingly
vote Republican.
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.
Senator Ruben Diaz Sr., the only
Democrat in the New York State Senate who
voted against the marriage equality bill in 2011, has been busy lately supporting
evangelical minister Erick Salgado in his long - shot bid to become the next mayor of NYC.
Senator Ruben Diaz Sr., the only
Democrat in the New York State Senate who
voted against the marriage equality bill in 2011, has been busy lately supporting
evangelical minister Erick Salgado in his long - shot bid to become the next mayor of NYC... Read