«
»

Evangelicals embrace McCain, everybody else backs Obama

flockwood

White evangelical Christians voted overwhelmingly for John McCain, but it wasn’t enough to rescue the Republican from defeat.
(Click here for the numbers from the Pew Forum.) Obama claimed 26 percent of the white evangelical vote, five points more than John Kerry captured in 2004.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 at 5:54 pm and is filed under Religion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Evangelicals embrace McCain, everybody else backs Obama”

  1. José Says:
    November 6th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

    Obama improved on Kerry in all religious categories except one, “Other Faiths”. I think that’s rather humorous. Of course, it was only a 1% drop and the margin was extremely lopsided nonetheless, 73%/22%.

    The Pew folks separate out Catholics and Jews but lump together Protestant Christians with all other religious groups that resemble Christianity. They specifically mention Mormon but the category probably includes Orthodox, UU, Jehovah Witness, Unification Church, and maybe even Messianic Jews. What’s with that?

  2. Caleb Powers Says:
    November 8th, 2008 at 12:23 pm

    I suspect it was those pesky Messianic Jews that put him over the top with their overwhelming vote.

Leave a Reply

Bad Behavior has blocked 0 access attempts in the last 7 days.