The Evangelical Vote: How Big Is It Really?
Polling data are muddled by issues of how to define this key voting bloc
Drawing on data from the 1998 General Social Survey, which had questions using the three ways of defining evangelicals, Lindsay and Hackett found that 53 percent of those determined by self-classification were Republican compared with 63 percent of those determined by specific beliefs. Among other things, that might explain why a recent Barna poll found Obama leading in 18 of 19 American faith communities, the only exception being the very restrictively defined evangelical community.
Only by the strictest of definitions, it seems, do the Republicans have a tight hold on evangelical voters.
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Sharing our good times and bad times.
Issues we have in the world today.
Food shortages (Safe ,chemical free, food)
Water clean, safe
global climate issues. the air we breathe
What produces a terrorist? could it not be the children who want to survive as much as you do?
Think of it ..right now 5 1/2 million deaths in the congo.
Disease, Famine, more extreme global disturbance
Life is not all about money!! Is it?
Suddenly the money is gone. Did the poor people cause the rich to lose their
money?
Remember the parable of the loaves and the fishes. Give and to you shall be given.
Do not fear. Remember what so ever you do unto one of the least .. you do unto yourself also.
Did your mother not share her being and body and self so you would live?
Surely she did. Or you would not be here.
The sharing the wealth you speak about is meant for the extremely wealthy who can afford to share. The top 1 to 2 %.
The Warren Buffets and Bill Gates who are giving vast sums of money away as they do not need all off it.
I lived through the great depression. I was the last of nine children. I remember having one orange for christmas.
As george washington said during the bleakest of times . We will all hang together or we will die together. We have always sacrificed together. I grew up before antibiotics, when tuberculosis, measles, polio, diptheria, whooping cough
raged through our country. Remember the life you save may be your own.
Or do you think you can eat and drink and breathe money
Those who have fought sacrificed and died for you. They gave their LIfe! Can we not spare a DIME?
obama
i believe obama doesn't care a thing about spirituality of any kind or any kind of biblically moral choices and decisions as much as he'll care about attempting to end poverty by distribution of wealth.this insane thinking that poor people should have as much as the pc programmer does,etc..and that people in poverty should be able to have as much as the guy that recieves a good pay check ,is just that..insane!! i believe that obama's going to attempt at bringing poor people,blacks in particular,out of the ghettos and into the center of the middle class areas(much like HUD was trying to do at one time)and that would be a horrible mistake.those are only a few of the problems i believe we'll have to deal with with obama as president. correcting the wrong that whites did to blacks/i excpect him to turn out to be an affirmative action president in every manner and form ,the workplace,education,neighborhood demographics,etc...diversity isn't worth it when it comes down to mixing a lower class level of people into a middle and higher class,because of the difference in lifestyles. my apartment complex is a good example of this.if it was as diverse as HUD would like it to be,it wouldn't be the nice,clean and quiet place that it is./ getting a bunch of money thrown at you suddenly or being given a nicer place to live in ,doesn't change one's bad behaviour ,i just believe that obama has alot of hidden agenda/
Go Squeaky Wheel
Good for you! The reasons you articulated are why Obama will never win the Heartland.
Frances - I agree God is not a Republican. Neither is he a Democrat. He is a benign Dictator... All we can do is try to be on his side. However, the New Testament does tell us to be good citizens. In a Democratic Republic, this responsibility includes voting wisely.
I am not happy with either of my choices, but a vote for McCain will probably give me a chance to vote for President Palin in four years. She has more executive experience than the other three (McCain, Biden, and Obmama) put together. Any man who was against his state's born alive act (and Obama was the only state senator to oppose it) lacks the judgment to be in charge of our nation.
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