Sentences with phrase «many evangelical voters»

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.

Some political observers say Republican overtures to Israel and to Jewish leaders are aimed more at American evangelical voters, a key part of the GOP base, than they are at Jews.

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).

Back then, during his first bid for president, he faced opposition from candidates including Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist minister and favorite of evangelical voters who billed himself as the «Christian leader.»

But polls show that despite all of this, Trump remains favored among evangelical voters.

(CNN)- At the moment, Newt Gingrich appears to be riding high with evangelical voters.

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.

«While many evangelical voters say they «strongly» support Trump over Clinton, this does not necessarily mean Trump is their ideal choice for president or that they are convinced he shares their religious convictions,» Pew stated.

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

And how often does «care for the poor» register as an important political issue among evangelical voters?)

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.

Evangelical voters, it turns out, are a more sophisticated bunch, judging candidates on a broad continuum of considerations from their personal faith and character to leadership attributes and electability.

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.

«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 %).

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

Trump and Clinton proved a contentious pair from the start — more evangelical voters planned their pick out of distaste for the other candidate than out of enthusiastic support for their choice, according to the Pew Research Center.

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.

The latest polls by NBC and CNN show Trump still solidly leading Ted Cruz among white evangelical voters at large.

Nearly half of white evangelical voters (49 %) gave the press the worst grade, an F.

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 %).

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.

When asked what should be Trump's first priority as president, white evangelical voters most often picked health care (31 %), immigration (13 %), the economy (11 %), and unemployment (10 %).

But white evangelical voters are more or less holding steady.

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..

Among white evangelical voters, 39 percent believe Trump's leadership will improve race relations, while 21 percent believe it will worsen them.

My Take: Why evangelicals should dump Gingrich At the moment, Newt Gingrich appears to be riding high with evangelical voters.

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.

When you read the narrative, what Balmer means by Religious Right is really a coalition of leaders and organizations within the evangelical world who have sought to organize evangelical voters along a particular set of issues.

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.

«Evangelical voters, it turns out, are a more sophisticated bunch..»

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.

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).

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.

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.

Honestly, I am disgusted by evangelical voters.

So he lost Alabama and Mississippi to conservative / tea party / evangelical voters... SO WHAT?

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.

Evangelical voters are not a monolith and defining them or generalizing about them is difficult at best, but it seems clear that they are not, as a group, Trump supporters.

The main cause of the splintering of evangelical voters is that all of the GOP candidates were equally terrible fools who used their religious beliefs to pander to voters.

Even if all the conservative / tea party / evangelical voters stay home next November, Obama still won't carry those states.

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.

Indeed the notion that anything close to a majority of evangelical voters support Trump is simply a media myth.