{"id":601,"date":"2008-05-12T08:34:27","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T08:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/05\/evidence-that-evangelicals-are.html"},"modified":"2008-05-12T08:34:27","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T08:34:27","slug":"evidence-that-evangelicals-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/05\/evidence-that-evangelicals-are.html","title":{"rendered":"Evidence that Evangelicals Aren&#8217;t Budging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"evangelicals.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/evangelicals.jpg\" width=\"76\" \/>What if the Democratic nominee for president waged an historic campaign for evangelical votes, the Republican nominee was surprisingly tone deaf to evangelical political concerns, a pile of polls showed evangelicals were less beholden to Republicans and their issues than they were at any point in the Bush administration&#8211;and evangelicals still supported the Republican nominee by huge margins in November. <a href=\"http:\/\/egghead.cc.trincoll.edu\/weblogs\/SpiritualPolitics\/2008\/05\/post_7.html\">Spiritual Politics&#8217; Mark Silk<\/a> points to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/election_20082\/2008_presidential_election\/daily_presidential_tracking_poll\">new Rasmussen poll<\/a> suggesting such an eventuality:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Obama leads 59% to 35% among those who rarely, never, or occasionally attend Church or other religious services. Among those who attend services at least a couple of times a month, McCain leads 56% to 37%. McCain leads 69% to 28% among Evangelical Christians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What would happen to all the Democrats&#8217; new evangelical outreach programs if such a lopsided result comes to pass?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if the Democratic nominee for president waged an historic campaign for evangelical votes, the Republican nominee was surprisingly tone deaf to evangelical political concerns, a pile of polls showed evangelicals were less beholden to Republicans and their issues than they were at any point in the Bush administration&#8211;and evangelicals still supported the Republican nominee&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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