{"id":339,"date":"2008-02-11T12:45:47","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T12:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/02\/hillary-ahead-among-white-evan.html"},"modified":"2008-02-11T12:45:47","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T12:45:47","slug":"hillary-ahead-among-white-evan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/02\/hillary-ahead-among-white-evan.html","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Ahead Among White Evangelicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hillary2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/hillary2.jpg\" width=\"84\" \/>Miffed that the exit polls commissioned by the TV networks and major news outlets have refused to ask Democratic voters whether they&#8217;re evangelical\/born again Christians, the liberal group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithinpubliclife.org\/\">Faith in Public Life<\/a> took it upon themselves to so. This morning, it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithinpubliclife.org\/content\/feature\/upload\/2008\/02\/FPL%20Zogby%20exit%20poll%20memo.pdf\">released results from post-Super Tuesday polls in Missouri and Tennessee<\/a>. Conducted by Zogby International, they found that Democrats could be making headway in their effort to pick up a greater share of the evangelical vote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One in three white evangelical voters in Missouri and Tennessee participated in<br \/>\nDemocratic primaries. Comparatively, only one in four white evangelical voters in Missouri and Tennessee supported Senator John Kerry in the 2004 general election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The poll also found that Hillary Clinton enjoyed a substantial advantage among white evangelicals in Tennessee and Missouri, echoing a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/02\/barna-hillary-leads-born-again.html\">Barna poll released last week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senator Hillary Clinton\u2019s support from white evangelicals surpassed that of Senator Barack Obama\u2019s in Missouri 54 percent to 37 percent and in Tennessee 78 percent to 12 percent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Both the Faith in Public Life and Barna polls defy the conventional wisdom that Obama, seen as more open to discussing his religion than Clinton, stood a better chance among white evangelicals. As the Illinois senator faces upcoming primaries in Virginia, Ohio, and Texas, he&#8217;ll want to improve his numbers in that department. The question is how. God-o-Meter is open to suggestions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miffed that the exit polls commissioned by the TV networks and major news outlets have refused to ask Democratic voters whether they&#8217;re evangelical\/born again Christians, the liberal group Faith in Public Life took it upon themselves to so. This morning, it released results from post-Super Tuesday polls in Missouri and Tennessee. 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