[lbo-talk] merely cultural

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Apr 2 11:01:23 PDT 2007


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—about
> 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



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