As was true in the past two presidential elections, two-thirds of all evangelicals who were registered to vote (65%) were aligned with the Republican Party. One out of five (21%) was Democrats and just one out of ten (10%) was registered independent of a party. That puts evangelicals at odds with the national voter profile, which shows a plurality of Democrats (42%), one-third Republican (34%) and two out of ten (20%) independent of a party affiliation.
Most remarkably, however, was the overwhelming support registered among evangelicals for Republican candidate John McCain. In total, 88% voted for Sen. McCain, compared to just 11% for Sen. Obama. The 88% is statistically identical to the 85% of evangelicals who backed George W. Bush in 2004. Surveys conducted by Barna throughout the campaign season showed that evangelicals were not enthusiastic about either candidate, but on Election Day evangelicals came through in a big way for the most conservative major candidate on the ballot.
We were more engaged in this race than we were during the 2000 election cycle:
News about the candidates and the election seemed ubiquitous for the past 18 months. Overall, two-thirds of all registered voters (67%) said they followed the 2008 election campaign “very closely” and another one-quarter (27%) followed it “somewhat closely.” People who do not consider themselves to be Christians followed the campaign slightly more closely than did those who claim to be Christian (71% versus 67%).
In 2000 “very closely” was 67%.
Obama’s voters were more likely to believe that he was ready to lead than McCain voters thought McCain was:
Barna asked voters how well they thought each candidate would perform as president if he were elected. The outcome showed that Sen. Obama’s constituency was more confident in his ability as chief executive than Sen. McCain’s supporters were of their man’s potential. In addition, McCain supporters were more confident that Sen. Obama would do well in the position than Obama supporters were about Sen. McCain’s likely performance.
Among Sen. McCain’s voters, only 74% felt he would do an excellent or good job as president. In contrast, 91% of Sen. Obama’s supporters said he would perform well.
Talk about faith! Blind faith that is. There’s no reason for them to think that he is able to rule, nothing on his resume prepares him to lead this nation during a recession and a time of war.
And I thought this was funny:
The second largest faith group in America, trailing only the Christian segment, is atheists and agnostics.
“Faith group” hehehehe! Yeah, they have faith alright, in their ability to determine for a fact that God does not exist. I don’t need to tell you that the voted overwhelmingly for Obama, do I?
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