{"id":83,"date":"2007-11-01T15:02:50","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T15:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/11\/half-of-gop-evangelicals-may-r.html"},"modified":"2007-11-01T15:02:50","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T15:02:50","slug":"half-of-gop-evangelicals-may-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/11\/half-of-gop-evangelicals-may-r.html","title":{"rendered":"Half of GOP Evangelicals May Reject Giuliani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God-o-Meter doesn&#8217;t know whether to say that it&#8217;s shocked or that it told you so: a <a href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/reports\/display.php3?ReportID=366\">new poll<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/\">The Pew Research Center<\/a> shows that 55-percent of all Republican evangelical voters would consider backing a third-party candidate in a presidential matchup between Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton. Yes, GOM was always skeptical about polls reporting <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/10\/third-party-threat-against-giu.html\">high evangelical support for Giuliani<\/a>. But that so many are entertaining a third party option even against their nightmare candidate comes as something of a surprise.<br \/>\nSome key graphs from the relevant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/live\/content\/national_world\/stories\/2007\/11\/01\/poll_evangelicals.ART_ART_11-01-07_A6_N28BCG9.html?sid=101\">AP story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fifty-five percent of white evangelical Republicans said they would consider a conservative who ran as a third-party candidate. Forty-two percent said they would not.<br \/>\nEvangelicals make up 34 percent of GOP and Republican-leaning voters, according to Pew. They are divided about evenly among Giuliani, Fred Thompson and Sen. John McCain of Arizona.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>God-o-Meter asks: what about Mitt Romney?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God-o-Meter doesn&#8217;t know whether to say that it&#8217;s shocked or that it told you so: a new poll from The Pew Research Center shows that 55-percent of all Republican evangelical voters would consider backing a third-party candidate in a presidential matchup between Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton. 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