Posted on 11/10/2026 3:22:03 AM PST by daniel1212
...I did want to write something because I keep seeing the same headline everywhere: the religious left is back. Ezra Klein’s take on the return of the religious left is going viral. Christian Paz at Vox called Talarico’s and Hamilton’s wins the rise of a Christian left.
The AP says the midterms showed the strength of the religious left...
Zach W. Lambert posted a good reminder of this on Substack this week: Talarico and Hamilton are not pioneering Christian faith in progressive politics. The Black church has been leading the way for generations.
Raphael Warnock. John Lewis. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Cori Bush. Emanuel Cleaver, a United Methodist minister who just won reelection in Missouri. And go back further: the very first Black member of Congress, Hiram Rhodes Revels, was an AME minister who took his seat in the U.S. Senate in 1870.
And Black Protestants vote overwhelming blue: According to NBC’s exit poll, about 90% of Black Protestants voted Democratic this year...
But “clergy are heading to Congress” is only part of the story.
Let’s think about Abdul El-Sayed, who became the first Muslim ever elected to the U.S. Senate...He’s one of at least seven Muslims headed to the next Congress. And CAIR counts a record 97 Muslims (and counting) elected at every level of government nationwide...
The religiously unaffiliated were 27% of the electorate this year, up from 24% in 2024. And we moved left: 78% voted for Democrats, up six or seven points from two years ago, according to both the NBC and CNN exit polls...
In Kansas, according to CNN exit polls, Adam Hamilton (reminder, he’s the megachurch pastor), lost Protestants and Catholics, but won 81% of nones...
In Michigan, El-Sayed lost Protestants and Catholics, but won 76% of nones.
Talarico won 78% of nones in Texas.,,
Openly religious candidates did well with people who don’t claim a religion.
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