{"id":1143,"date":"2005-02-05T13:05:18","date_gmt":"2005-02-05T17:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2005\/02\/05\/evangelicals-did-not-propel-bush-to"},"modified":"2005-02-05T13:05:18","modified_gmt":"2005-02-05T17:05:18","slug":"evangelicals-did-not-propel-bush-to-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2005\/02\/05\/evangelicals-did-not-propel-bush-to-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangelicals did not propel Bush to victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s much more complex than that.  Because “evangelicals” aren’t monolithic.  Or so the latest Pew report<\/a> seems to say:<\/p>\n

Overall, the total share of Bush’s vote from Evangelicals
\nin 2004 was the same as in 2000 (40 percent); the Evangelical share of
\nthe Kerry ballots was 14 percent, up slightly from Gore’s 13 percent in
\n2000….<\/p>\n

Foreign policy was rated as “very important” to the votes of 80 percent
\nof the entire sample, and reported as the “most important” for 35
\npercent. Both of these figures are far greater than for social issues.<\/p>\n

However, there is very little variation in relative importance of
\nforeign policy across the religious landscape, with the highest group
\nscoring 88 percent (Jews) and the lowest 71 percent (Latino
\nProtestants)….<\/p>\n

Overall, 58 percent of the entire sample said economic issues were very
\nimportant to their vote, and 33 percent said it was top priority. So,
\neconomic issues ranked second, behind foreign policy and ahead of
\nsocial issues….<\/p>\n

Thus, economic issues were important to Kerry’s strongest backers,
\npresenting a contrast to social issues, which were a priority among the
\ntop Bush supporters.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The report contains some small problems of methodology, including what
\nseems like a tautological definition of evangelical and traditionalist
\n(“For evangelical Protestants, traditionalists were those who
\nclaimed to be fundamentalist, evangelical, Pentecostal, or charismatic….”), but it seems overall quite a sound piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s much more complex than that.  Because “evangelicals” aren’t monolithic.  Or so the latest Pew report seems to say: Overall, the total share of Bush’s vote from Evangelicals in 2004 was the same as in 2000 (40 percent); the Evangelical share of the Kerry ballots was 14 percent, up slightly from Gore’s 13 percent in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-ir","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}