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You are correct as NC and SC are in the 2nd group attendees.
Posted on 04/02/2016 12:40:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The latest Pew Research poll reveals that while Ted Cruz is supported by white evangelical Republicans and those who regularly attend church service, the GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is preferred by white mainline Protestants and those who attend religious services less frequently.
The poll released Friday shows that 41 percent of white evangelical Protestant Republican voters back Cruz, compared with 38-percent support for Trump. And 44 percent of Republican voters who regularly attend religious services are likely to back Cruz, while Trump has the backing of only 29 percent in this category.
The poll also suggests that 57 percent of the GOP electorate that is religiously unaffiliated supports the billionaire businessman, who is also backed by 44 percent of white mainline Protestants. Only 18 percent of the latter support Cruz.
Darren Patrick Guerra, an associate professor of political science at Biola University, earlier countered the proposition that evangelicals are supporting Trump, using exit polls after primaries in southern states.
Trump may have carried a plurality of evangelical voters in some states, but polls also show that, on average, 64 percent of evangelicals in all southern states voted for someone other than Trump, Guerra pointed out in an article in First Things, adding that a majority, 51 percent, voted collectively for either Sen. Marco Rubio from Florida or Cruz, and not Trump.
Overall, the Pew poll says, Trump is supported by 41 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters, Cruz by 32 percent and John Kasich by 20 percent.
The poll also points out that Trump performs better among Republican men than women, as 45 percent of Republican men back Trump, the percentage reduces to 38 among women Republican voters. On the contrary, while 30 percent of Republican men support Cruz, his support increases to 34 among women.
Trump recently mocked Cruz's wife, comparing her to his own wife, and has attacked several other women.
"Suburban women have been a critical swing group in the past, and there's a lot about Donald Trump that is offensive to them," Geoff Garin, a Democratic pollster who served as a chief strategist to Hillary Clinton in 2008, told The New York Times recently.
The Pew poll also says that Trump garners more support from those with lower levels of education and income, as nearly half of Republican voters who have not attended college and 44 percent of those with some college education but no degree support Trump, compared with 32 percent of those with bachelors or 30 percent with postgraduate degrees.
Support for Cruz varies little by education, the poll adds.
The question is this — how is “Evangelical” defined?
The Pew Poll shades light into this — the CHURCH GOING Evangelical vote for Cruz. Those who seldom go to church but still call themselves Evangelical vote for Trump.
Again its BS as proven by actual voting results no matter how the bogus poll and you parse it.
Beat me to it.
Cruz lost the race when he lost the South, and he lost the South because he lost among Christians and there were not enough Mormons to make up the deficit.
RE: Again its BS as proven by actual voting results no matter how the bogus poll and you parse it.
The Poll CLARIFIES the voting results.
Sounds like NC and SC have been insulted. The evangelical churches I know in Raleigh are regularly attended and many of our friends and associates attend and are strong Trump supporters. I bet we have higher regular church attendance than most states in NC and SC.
I call BS on this article! We just don’t trust pollsters enough to answer their invasive questions.
Except by a small margin in Iowa where did Grandpa Munster beat Trump among Evangelicals? He lost the whole South except Texas where he didn’t even get a majority. Ok I’ll give you Okla. But where is Grandpa Munster’s Evangelical strength? New Hampshire?
No the poll tries to resell the lie that Cruz does better with Evangelicals a proven lie by real world results in the mostly Evangelical south.
RE: No the poll tries to resell the lie that Cruz does better with Evangelicals
Actually the poll shows that Ted Cruz does better with church going evangelicals, if it’s a lie then you have an issue with the polls and its methodology.
It is a lie as proven by real world results in the South.
Cruz does better among cults.
RE: It is a lie as proven by real world results in the South.
AS the poll shows the poll CLARIFIES what the real world result in the South shows.
RE: Cruz does better among cults.
CAn you define a “cult” for us?
Yes, what is your denomination, sect, or faith community called ?
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You are correct as NC and SC are in the 2nd group attendees.
Hardly, as the Title of the article says it tries to parse out Evangelicals for Cruz a proven false witness based on real world.
RE: Yes, what is your denomination, sect, or faith community called ?
I go to a non-denominational congregation that adheres to the historic creeds of the Christian faith — The Apostle’s Creed, the Nicene Creed.
We are members of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals:
Trump won both states and evangelicals I know feel it their duty to God and country to vote so they voted.
RE: Hardly, as the Title of the article says it tries to parse out Evangelicals for Cruz a proven false witness based on real world.
Regardless of how you personally feel about Ted Cruz, the results of the poll shows what it shows.
The poll tries to differentiate between People who are regular church goers and those who are not.
The former support Cruz, the latter support Trump.
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