Posted on 11/28/2024 9:38:56 AM PST by CFW
The Amish vote received significant attention throughout the 2024 election cycle as Republican activists worked to mobilize the traditionally low-turnout group.
As the frenzy settles, curiosity about its impact continues.
The hyper-focus was fueled by extensive communities in battleground states, most of all Pennsylvania. It was also an opportunity to bring the historically politically adverse and traditionalist culture under the Grand Old Party’s umbrella.
Some Amish refrain from voting due to beliefs emphasizing separation from "worldly" influences, though a desire for religious freedom and protection from government overreach has drawn more to the polls in recent years.
Republican U.S. Rep. Troy Balderson, whose district encompasses the largest Amish settlement in Ohio’s Holmes County, told The Center Square that the community doesn’t see things all that differently.
"The Amish community wants the same things most Americans want: lower prices, fewer heavy-handed government mandates, and policies guided by common sense – not woke ideologies,” he said. “It’s that simple.”
As previously reported by The Center Square, it's difficult to estimate how many members of the Amish community vote. Nearly 400,000 exist nationwide across 654 individual settlements.
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Politifact reported said claims of nearly 180,000 Amish registered voters were far-fetched.
Though data on Amish voter turnout in the 2024 election isn't fully available yet, Republican organizers used creative outreach methods this year, such as in-person engagement at local fairs, billboards, ads and mail-in ballot education.
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I notice the article doesn't mention Scot Presler, who traveled to the Amish communities and spent time with the people encouraging them to vote. According to him he registered quite a number and also helped in getting them to the polls in order to cast their ballots. The election was close in PA. I think the Amish probably did make a difference.
When it comes to government, most Republicans / conservatives / libertarians just want to be left alone as much as possible. That should work for the Amish as well.
I agree. I grew up with Amish in Ohio, they are not stupid, nor are they asleep at the wheel(so to speak). Being left alone by intrusive worldly government has always been important to them.
The Biden regime used police state tactics to close down an Amish dairy. The Amish are all for live and let live until this year when they realized they too have a target on their backs
For the Amish, this was payback pure and simple
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
Amish Farmer Faces Fines, Prison Time for Refusing to Comply with USDA Regulations
The Amish want to be left alone, but when PA authorities repeatedly went after Amish farmer Amos Miller for selling raw milk without a permit I think many of them began to realize the PA government could come after them too.
The milk gestapo was disgusting. Government goons destroying milk and cheese.
The Amish are a cloistered group of ‘other haters’. They keep to themselves and go about their business of the nefarious crimes we can only ponder about. Weird supremacist religious tendencies coupled with generations long loyalty to their ways is SUSPICIOUS, UNAMERICAN.. We have to find a way to suppress them... Yeah, that’s it. Stop them from selling fresh milk and produce and product.
This is what Left America thinks of these wonderful people.
The left hates them because they are white and Christian.
Amish started in Europe, but ALL moved to America, to escape heavy handed government there!
They enjoyed two or three centuries of government, who left them alone, what is all what they want from government!
But now, the WOKE government here is getting after them. And there is no country, they can just move to!
So, finally, they are waking up and exercise their God given right to vote that government OUT!
And the peerless Scott Presler...
Fresh milk is generally harmless, if the cow is healthy, milked in clean way, and well cared for.
They do not pasteurize milk for the calf!
Pasteurization probably kills some good ingredients.
There is historical problem - the goat milk is known to get infected and it shall be pasteurized before consumption. Some unscrupulous people used to mix cow milk with goat one and caused epidemics.
That then caused the pasteurization orders.
Anyway, customers should have the right to know and make their own choices.
If the milk is clearly marked as fresh, and proven to be 100% clean cow milk, there should be no problem!
I think that is what motivated them. The attacks on AG (raw milk, etc) probably was a big factor.
The Amish voted like they never did before. Seems raiding a milk farm with lots of guns helped them to decide.
Whenever I read about the Amish in Pennsylvania riding to the polls in 2016 and 2024 to try to preserve civilization against the statists, I can’t help but think of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxlRJsQ7p2k
I’m not seeing it. Votes in Holmes OH and Lancaster PA are about the same as in 2020. I’ll admit I’d know better if I looked at subcounty level data, maybe even precinct level.
Just from eyeballing it, it looks like the biggest shifts were:
Philadelphia (lower turnout and higher Trump pct)
Monroe (in the Poconos) - Trump lost in 2020 won in 2024
Lackawanna (Scranton, Biden’s birthplace, just north of Monroe) - Harris still carried but not as much as Biden, turnout slightly up.
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