“There aren’t huge numbers of social conservatives. They’re maybe 15-20% of the electorate as a whole, and 1/2 of those vote dim.”
I would like to see those numbers, got a good source?
“There aren’t huge numbers of social conservatives. They’re maybe 15-20% of the electorate as a whole, and 1/2 of those vote dim.”
I have seen the figure as about 41 or 45%, the PEW reasearch below seems to support that..
“According to the Pew Research Center, nearly four out of five white evangelical Christians supported President Bush in 2004, representing more than a third of all ballots cast for him. When traditionalist Catholics and members of other conservative religious communities are factored in, it becomes clear that the voters usually lumped together under the banner of the Religious Right form the largest single constituency of today’s Republican Party.