Sentences with phrase «strong evangelical support»

With strong evangelical support, Santorum went on to win primaries and caucuses in 11 states, even as Romney racked up more than twice as many delegates.

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The reality of God, as understood by Evangelicals, is made plausible by particularly strong social support.

Pat Robertson won strong support from his coreligionists in Iowa in 1988, catapulting his candidacy to national prominence, but still lost the caucuses to Bob Dole, and lost the evangelical vote to then - Vice President George H.W. Bush in South Carolina.

There was no exit poll for Buchanan's strong showing in the 1996 Iowa caucuses, but by eyeballing his numbers in New Hampshire and making adjustments for the more evangelical and conservative turnout model for the caucuses, we can guess that Buchanan's Iowa support came largely from religious conservatives and pro-lifers.

Self - identified white evangelicals, who lean Republican, showed the strongest support among faith groups for the travel ban, with a 76 percent approval rate in a Pew Research Center survey released last week.

Facing a primary threat from a Democrat with strong gay support, Monserrate has sought to hitch himself to evangelical voters in his Queens district.

The survey also found that 43 percent of evangelicals supported a strong creationist view in which «God created the Earth, the universe and all life within the past 10,000 years.»