Posted on 04/05/2015 6:28:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This weekend brings Easter Sunday and the beginning of Passover, and Christians and Jews will be filing into houses of worship this weekend to celebrate - most certainly more than usual for what are considered important holy days for people of both religious persuasions.
The difference in the number of people in those churches and temples this weekend has a political significance. Often we talk about how different religious groups vote at election time, but the data show that the bigger divide in the electorate is around religious attendance - how often people go to a house of worship.
In 2012, for instance, Republican Mitt Romney won the vote coming from Protestants, capturing 57% of their vote. President Barack Obama won the vote coming from Catholics, Jews, people of other affiliations and people of no affiliation, some by large margins.
But the Obama/Romney split is even clearer when you look at it by religious attendance. There was a clear linear progression for both candidates in 2012, with Mr. Obama's support rising as church attendance falls and the opposite true for Mr. Romney.
The church attendance differences are most stark when you look at Catholics.
Yes, Mr. Obama won the overall Catholic vote in 2012, but Mr. Romney beat the president handily among Catholics who attended church at least weekly - 57% to 42%. In fact, those figures matched exactly the margins Mr. Romney had over Mr. Obama with Protestant Christians.
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I’m with you Proud2BeRight
Crosdaddy
Two neighbors are radical socialists to the left of Obama. They’re very active in their church, both in attendance and promoting left-wing causes as part of liberation theology. They are hardcore Dem activists.
As a Deist, I don’t attend church. My Hindu and Buddhist neighbors don’t either. We do vote conservative though.
You enjoy pulling things out your orifice because you like the sound of it?
You full of it. You can only speak for yourself, for others, best be silent lest you sound like a fool.
Do your neighbors go to an old liberal “mainline” denomination?
Same here.
God is everywhere and can hear just fine, from there.
“Do your neighbors go to an old liberal mainline denomination?”
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Presbyterian.
A quote from guess who:
13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. In conflict tactics there are certain rules that [should be regarded] as universalities. One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target and ‘frozen.’...
“...any target can always say, ‘Why do you center on me when there are others to blame as well?’ When your ‘freeze the target,’ you disregard these [rational but distracting] arguments.... Then, as you zero in and freeze your target and carry out your attack, all the ‘others’ come out of the woodwork very soon. They become visible by their support of the target...’
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