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To: neverdem
"Churchgoing Christians cast ballots overwhelmingly for traditionalist candidates, "

BS. It's 50-50 at best.

Church-going Christians MAY even be predominantly left...remember, this includes Lutherans and Catholics.

34 posted on 10/03/2010 8:14:50 PM PDT by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: Mariner
Agreed.

Don't forget Methodists. They're pretty liberal too.

The Methodist church I went to in high school actually had Harry Blackmun as a guest speaker.

I can't tell you how many conservative Christians tried to get me to read "The Purpose Driven Life". I didn't read it, didn't care to, and knew that I made the right choice not to when I saw the fat-faced pastor who wrote it say the prayer at Obama's inauguration.

I trust libertarians 100 times over someone who classifies themself as "Christian" to vote for the true constitutionalist in a given race.

35 posted on 10/03/2010 8:26:47 PM PDT by GunRunner
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To: Mariner; neverdem
"Churchgoing Christians cast ballots overwhelmingly for traditionalist candidates, "

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48 posted on 10/03/2010 9:16:03 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Mariner

I see that someone already beat me to it, but I’ll post two paragraphs from the article from which he pulled his chart:

Churchgoing closely tied to voting patterns
By Susan Page, USA TODAY

. . . Voters who say they go to church every week usually vote for Republicans. Those who go to church less often or not at all tend to vote Democratic.

Forget the gender gap. The “religion gap” is bigger, more powerful and growing. The divide isn’t between Catholics and Protestants, Jews and Gentiles. Instead, on one side are those of many faiths who go to services, well, religiously: Catholics who attend Mass without fail, evangelical Christians and mainline Protestants who show up for church rain or shine, some Orthodox Jews. On the other side are those who attend religious services only occasionally or never.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-06-02-religion-gap_x.htm

Mariner, how could you not know this basic fact about voting patterns? You don’t seem to have very good discernment.


77 posted on 10/03/2010 10:07:47 PM PDT by Paladins Prayer
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