GOP's Hold on Evangelicals Weakening (1 Viewer)

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Yippee! It looks like the GOP won't be able to count on their beloved evangelicals like they did in 2004. It's amazing how much things can change in 2 years.

GOP's Hold on Evangelicals Weakening
Party's Showing in Midterm Elections May Be Hurt as Polls Indicate Support Dropping in Base

By Alan Cooperman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 6, 2006; Page A06

. . . In 2004, white evangelical or born-again Christians made up a quarter of the electorate, and 78 percent of them voted Republican, according to exit polls. But some pollsters believe that evangelical support for the GOP peaked two years ago and that what has been called the "God gap" in politics is shrinking.

A nationwide poll of 1,500 registered voters released yesterday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center found that 57 percent of white evangelicals are inclined to vote for Republican congressional candidates in the midterm elections, a 21-point drop in support among this critical part of the GOP base.

Even before the Foley scandal, the portion of white evangelicals with a "favorable" impression of the Republican Party had fallen sharply this year, from 63 percent to 54 percent, according to Pew polls.

In the latest survey, taken in the last 10 days of September and the first four days of October, the percentage of evangelicals who think that Republicans govern "in a more honest and ethical way" than Democrats has plunged to 42 percent, from 55 percent at the start of the year. . . .

But the president's ratings have slipped even within his most loyal constituency. Since the start of his second term, Bush's favorability rating has dropped from 52 percent to 42 percent among all adults, and from 71 percent to 60 percent among white evangelical Protestants, according to Washington Post-ABC News polls.

"I think he's too set in his way to listen to what's really going on in Iraq," Sunde said. [Ain't that the truth!] She noted that her rising concern about the war "possibly could" lead her to cross party lines and vote for Wetterling. . . .

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/05/AR2006100501763.html

 

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Yippee! It looks like the GOP won't be able to count on their beloved evangelicals like they did in 2004. It's amazing how much things can change in 2 years.

Well, Evangelicals should never mix politics into their religions. Politics is a dirty business, which corrupts both Democrat and Republican alike. If Jesus were alive and living in America today, I think his vote would be for none of the above.