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