Is the Evangelical Left Fizzling?
Is the Evangelical Left Fizzling?
By MARK TOOLEY
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/evangelical-left-fizzling_523375.html?page=1
December 16, 2010
Over the last several years the old religious right reputedly has been melting down, with younger, more liberal evangelicals in the ascendency. But exit polling from the 2010 midterm election indicate no major political shift among evangelical or Protestant voters.
According to CNN's exit poll, 77 percent of self-described white evangelicals or born again Christians voted Republican. This number is actually higher than the 74 percent who supported George W. Bush's reelection in 2004, which was considered a high water mark for conservative evangelical activism. Seventy percent of white evangelicals and born-agains voted Republican in 2008 and 2006.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By MARK TOOLEY
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/evangelical-left-fizzling_523375.html?page=1
December 16, 2010
Over the last several years the old religious right reputedly has been melting down, with younger, more liberal evangelicals in the ascendency. But exit polling from the 2010 midterm election indicate no major political shift among evangelical or Protestant voters.
According to CNN's exit poll, 77 percent of self-described white evangelicals or born again Christians voted Republican. This number is actually higher than the 74 percent who supported George W. Bush's reelection in 2004, which was considered a high water mark for conservative evangelical activism. Seventy percent of white evangelicals and born-agains voted Republican in 2008 and 2006.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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