[lbo-talk] Evangelicals are the Jews of the left

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Apr 16 08:46:00 PDT 2007


On Apr 16, 2007, at 10:00 AM, Joseph Catron wrote:


> But that doesn't really address the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
> America or other denominations that are culturally mainline,
> politically moderate, and theologically evangelical, like the United
> Methodist Church, which resulted from a merger between the Methodist
> Church and the Evangelical United Brethren.

Maybe not, but tendencies are rarely 100% of anything. Self- identification may matter - do the United Methodists, for example, identify as Methodist or evangelical?

In 2004, Bush got 56% of the votes of self-identified Proestants; 49% of Catholics; 22% of Jews; 29% of those with no religion (10% of the electorate, by the way, almost half as many as the next category); and Evangelicals (22% of the electorate), 76%.

In an analysis of the 2004 vote, Pew pointed out that the best statistical predictors of vote were black race (overwhelmingly Kerry) and frequent churchgoing (overwhelmingly Bush).

Doug



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