Re: merely cultural
On Apr 2, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote:
Finally, the additional vote of Conservative Protestants for Republican candidates, over and above that of Mainline American Protestants, is meager=97about seven percentage points.
Hmm, a lot depends on definitions, I guess. According to the 2004 =
exit poll, 53% of the electorate was Protestant, and went 56/43 for =
Bush. Among Evangelicals, 22% of the electorate, Bush took 76%, vs. =
23% for Kerry. They provided about a third of Bush’s total vote.
Doug