Sentences with phrase «religious voting blocs»

One chapter on shifting religious voting blocs by Lyman Kellstedt and colleagues gives greater detail in support of their article in these pages, «It's the Culture, Stupid!

Socially conservative groups like Slattery's could be the deciding factor in the Democratic primary, much in the same way the socially conservative religious voting bloc came out in force for the election of Congressman Bob Turner in Queens and Brooklyn.

Not exact matches

While debate moderators and election commentators focus on economic issues, the religious rhetoric of the presidential candidates appears to go mostly unnoticed - except by the key Republican voting bloc being courted.

The Republican Party is most vulnerable because the Religious Right, a substantial voting bloc, is adamantly against gambling, This was evident recently in an Alabama gubernatorial primary race, when the challenger said that he «would not rule out new gambling rules» and lost, while Governor Fob James agreed to almost all of the right's social agenda, and won renomination.

as you say, «narrow - minded religious zealots» make up as much of the voting bloc as they once or ever did.

Catholics and evangelicals, two key voting blocs, have been buzzing about religious liberty for months, with mega-pastor Rick Warren recently canceling plans for a presidential forum with Obama and Romney and announcing plans for one on religious liberty instead.

This is due to the fact that the more generic term, Christian, has come to be used within religious and even political ways to refer to a voting bloc.»

«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.

Certain religious political activists have succeeded in forming a political bloc that encourages some politicians to say what that bloc wants to hear to get votes.

The supposed deal is predicated on the assumption that Comrie's religious black base would be inclined to vote for him and Peralta by combining two ethnic based voting blocs and thus increasing their chance for victory in a crowded race.

Parties still treated ethnic minority's as «bloc votes» to be targeted, it added, claiming that «engaging solely with leading figures within traditional clan - type structures or religious institutions can be divisive and risk creating «community gatekeepers» rather than real engagement with voters».

Nevertheless, many Americans who self - identify as religious and social conservatives, especially those in the subset of white evangelical Protestants (a powerful voting bloc in Republican politics), continue to cling stubbornly to the orthodoxy of climate denial.

Included in the mix are affluent democracies, military dictatorships, Communist states, religious theocracies, long - simmering conflicts, political intrigue, and blocs that vote together.