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.
“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”
AND TRUMP BEATS CRUZ AMONG WOMEN 38-34!!!!
This writer tries to put it differently but the numbers don’t lie.
There is no collapse among women, only the liberal hags who aren’t voting for ANY Republican.
Trump leads among Republican Women!
Since your Protestant derived faith community and alliance is protesting Protestantism while upholding the ecumenical councils (Nicea, et. al.) that preceded Protestantism, I would not define it as a cult.
Of course, the term has wider applications beyond this definition, as witnessed in Elizabeth's story. Sometimes I use it in the latter, especially with Fundamentalists.
Well a pox on them.
Donald Trump is preferred by white mainline Protestants and those who attend religious services less frequently.
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Are these just social christians? The ones that only kneel when they are lining up a putt?
I find it interesting and believable, that from the article it shows Cruz has even less support among women than what Trump has....
“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.”
Cruz 34% Trump 38%
I think you hit the nail on the noggin
I also think the figures are wrong, possibly because of people’s irritation at being asked their faith, churchgoing habits, etc. I’m an evangelical Christian (and it does mean “to evangelize”) regular every-week churchgoer and straight-laced (well, sorta) Baptist, and I’m for Trump, as are most of my family and acquaintances of all stripes. The only Cruzers are a couple of Pentecostals and a pastor who never sees the internet.
Okay, said my piece, going away now. :-)
Mechanicos wrote:
False Witness. Trump wins Evangelicals as SC showed. So this article and polls it cites are provably a lie.
Trump carried there because the Pope endorsed him .
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