{"id":176,"date":"2011-02-24T11:58:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T11:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/religionandpubliclife\/2011\/02\/finding-the-tea-party-god-gap.html"},"modified":"2011-02-24T11:58:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T11:58:18","slug":"finding-the-tea-party-god-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/religionandpubliclife\/2011\/02\/finding-the-tea-party-god-gap.html","title":{"rendered":"Finding the Tea Party God Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surprise, surprise! Not. Pew’s latest report<\/a>
\non religion and the Tea Party shows Tea Party support to be centrally
\nlocated in the community of white evangelicals, who are five times more
\nlikely to agree than disagree with the T.P. agenda. By contrast, the
\nNones (those Pew insists on calling “Unaffiliated”) are three times more
\nlikely to disagree than agree. The fact that the Tea Party puts
\ntax-and-spend issues on its banner doesn’t mean that they’re
\nlibertarians. It means that they’re the same old conservatives with a
\ndifferent banner.<\/p>\n

What some survey researcher needs to do now is
\nask the worship attendance question and cross tabulate it with Tea Party
\nsupport. Then we’ll be able to compare frequent and less frequent
\nattenders across all denominations, and see exactly what the Tea Party
\nGod Gap looks like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Surprise, surprise! Not. Pew’s latest report on religion and the Tea Party shows Tea Party support to be centrally located in the community of white evangelicals, who are five times more likely to agree than disagree with the T.P. agenda. 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