I don’t know. Why do Evangelicals prefer Clinton (or Obama)? There certainly has been enough articles this year indicating that Evangelicals are moving to the Demoncrat party so I am sure they are supporting one or the other.
The better question would be....why would ANYBODY support either of them?
I think on evangelicals, knowing a bunch of them who lean left, it is that the republicans don’t stress enough being active in social areas. What I mean is, republicans do stress personal responsibility and small government, etc., but they aren’t perceived as then going out and trying to help people who really do need it. If we (R’s) could show at the same time that government is not the answer, but that people doing things to help others VOLUNTARILY is - we’d overtake the dems in a heartbeat.
Another for instance, my wife is pro choice, but she always says it is because you can’t just stop abortions without addressing the other societal problems. So on one hand, yeah, the argument that they are wrong should work, but realistically, people don’t think like that. It would have to be this 1) abortions are wrong and should be illegal; and 2) we (NOT GOV’T) should do something to help people not be in a position where they feel like they need to have one. R’s (myself included) tend to pretty much just stop at 1, because that is logical. But we have to convince people’s touchy feely parts too.