Posted on 09/25/2016 3:14:38 PM PDT by daniel1212
While black evangelicals [who make up about 6% of evangelicals] are solidly against the GOP nominee, among white working-class evangelicals, about three in four -- 76% -- say they'd consider voting for Trump....
The majority -- 6 in 10 -- of voters in this group believe the US' better days are in the past and most are concerned that the country is becoming less Christian. Nearly 90% of working class whites who are evangelical Christians believe Christian values are under attack in America today. While most Christian groups -- 73% of mainline Protestants and 61% of Catholics -- share this view, only 41% of those with no religious preference believe these values are under attack...
"I feel the country was founded on Christian principles. They came here to get away form being persecuted for their beliefs," she said. "And now, if our ministers don't marry a gay couple or refuse to marry a gay couple, they can be arrested and taken to jail."..
The majority -- 75% -- of white working-class evangelicals believe that recent immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries increase the risk of terrorist attacks in the US, a higher percentage than other working-class whites...
"I don't know where I am," said Long. "I'm so confused at this point and time. I don't believe either one of them should be in office. I don't believe either one should be running."
For these voters, the lack of confidence in government is exemplified in the candidacy of Clinton, who has been in government for more than 20 years.
"If you or I would have done what she did with those emails, we'd be in jail," Mitchell said. "But because she's the Democratic nominee, they don't hold politicians to the same standards that they hold the people."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
The last 5 terrorist attacks in America have been perpetuated by MUSLIMS.
What about facts CNN you lying propagandists!
ping and pray
Maybe they started to wake up when God was booed at the 2012 Rat party convention.
[ The majority — 6 in 10 — of voters in this group believe the US’ better days are in the past and most are concerned that the country is becoming less Christian. Nearly 90% of working class whites who are evangelical Christians believe Christian values are under attack in America today. ]
And they are correct on all points.
We’ll see if the Evangelicals have a better turnout for Trump.
Well, the Democrats supported an Antichrist-type figure, who regularly omitted “God” from traditional documents while not only booing God, booing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
The spirit of antichrist is strong among them and they don’t even perceive it.
Maybe God is sending them a strong delusion, so they will believe a lie. 😩
No, if anything they (we) were ahead of any enlightenment.
Based upon exit polling, 74 percent of Evangelicals voted for McCain in 2008, with 25 percent for Obama. (Another measure which put the percentage of US evangelicals at 23 percent, with 73 percent voting for McCain, 26 percent for Obama.) http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=367
Catholics overall supported Obama over McCain by a nine-point margin (54% vs. 45%) ^
Exit polls in 2008 reported that weekly churchgoing Catholics voted for John McCain over Barack Obama, by just 50 percent to 49 percent. Weekly Protestant church attendees voted for McCain over Barack Obama 66 to 32 percent. http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/churchgoing_catholics_chose_mccain_over_obama/
In the 2012 election (preliminary exit-poll analysis), white Evangelicals (23% of the electorate) voted 79%/20% Romney/Obama; Protestants overall (53% of the electorate) voted 57%/42%; black Protestants (9% of the electorate) and other Christian voted 5%/95%; Catholics overall (25% of the electorate) voted 48%/50%; white Catholics (18% of the electorate) voted 59%/40%; and Hispanic Catholics (5% of the electorate) voted 21%/75% Romney/Obama http://www.pewforum.org/Politics-and-Elections/How-the-Faithful-Voted-2012-Preliminary-Exit-Poll-Analysis.aspx
Weekly Church attendees (28% of the electorate) voted 57%/39% Romney/Obama; more than weekly (14% of the electorate) voted 63%/36% and “never” attendees (17% of the electorate) were at 34%/62% Romney/Obama. ^
According to Barna, in 2012 45% of the people who voted in November indicated that their faith affected how they voted. 72% of Evangelicals, 34% non-evangelical born again voters, and 19% of Catholics, 17% of non-Christian faith said their faith affected their presidential preference a lot. 9% of voters overall and 10% of evangelicals felt strongly that Mr. Romney's Mormon connection diminished their likelihood of supporting him. http://www.barna.org/culture-articles/595-the-role-of-faith-in-the-2012-election
Evangelicals supported Mr. Romney 81% to 17% over Mr. Obama (a smaller percentage for the Republican candidate than in previous years). Born again Christians who are not evangelicals supported Romney 56% to 43% over the incumbent. Catholics supported Mr. Obama by 57% to 42% — the largest margin since Bill Clinton topped Bob Dole by 21 points in 1996. Protestant overall voted 57% to 42% in favor of Mr. Romney. ^
Notional Christians (the largest segment of voters and who consider themselves to be Christian but are not evangelical or born again) voted 57% to 41% in favor of Mr. Obama. 68% of Skeptics and 69% of non-Christian faiths (14% of total voters) also voted for the Democratic candidate. ^
1% of Evangelicals, 10% of non-evangelical born again voters, 14% of Notional Christians and 33% of Skeptics said they were politically liberal. ^
48% of voters overall, 54% of Notional Christians, 53% of Catholics, and just 14% of Evangelicals agreed that the United States will be better off four years from now than it is today. 64% of voters overall said they would prefer that the presidential campaign be decided by the popular vote rather than Electoral votes. ^
A better turnout and greater conservative percentage than for what group?
I have been thinking that is so.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3473166/posts?page=32#32
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3473166/posts?page=34#34
Well, 0bama isn’t THE anti-Christ but he is an anti-Christ.
Well not yet anyways. ;)
But give him time. He may just be a high-ranking member in his eventual cabinet.
Something very, very, very unusual regarding that guy.
Yes he is. I think there is no shortage of people willing to do the bidding of Satan. He is certainly one of them. They will pay for all eternity. If that isn't a sobering thought, I don't know what is.
I should have said “We’ll see if Evangelicals have a better turnout for Trump than they did for Romney in 2012”.
But according to a national post-election survey commissioned by the Faith and Freedom Coalition, the evangelical turnout was up in 2012 for Mitt Romney compared to the 2008 numbers for John McCain. The evangelical vote increased in 2012 to a record 27% of the electorate and that white evangelicals voted roughly 78% for Mitt Romney to 21% for Barack Obama. This was the highest share of the vote in modern political history. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/11/07/poll-evangelical-turnout-increased-in-2012-over-2008/
What you could say is that we’ll see if any other groups have a better turnout than Evangelicals and vote as heavily conservative.
Thank you for that info.
The fact that 21 percent of evangelicals voted for Obama makes me question either the statistic, the level of knowledge of the evangelical, or whether the person even understands “evangelism”.
They voted for Romney more heavily than any other surveyed group, even Mormons, but the term evangelical is usually applied to any who say they are born again.
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