[lbo-talk] Ruy Teixiera on religion & current politics

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Sun Jun 6 09:12:24 PDT 2004


In a message dated 6/6/2004 8:01:43 AM Eastern Standard Time, mpollak at panix.com writes: 1. Most progressives are religious. For example, in 2000, 81 percent of Gore voters professed a religious affiliation. That's within shouting distance of the 89 percent of Bush voters who professed a religious affiliation (2000 NSRP).

2. It is true that progressives attend church less frequently than conservatives. In the 2000 Voter News Service (VNS) exit poll, 33 percent of Gore voters said that they attended church once a week or more, compared to 49 percent of Bush voters who said that they attended church that often. (Note that both figures are probably too high-VNS data show levels of attendance that are inconsistent with all other data sources-but the magnitude of attendance difference between Gore and Bush voters is probably about right.) Is he defining "progressive as voting for Gore? That seems a faulty assumption. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20040606/81ef9cad/attachment.htm>



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