2016 Postmortem
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White Evangelicals, Catholics and Mormons Carried Trump
A strong white evangelical, white Catholic and Mormon vote for Donald Trump belied the condemnation many religious leaders had leveled at the tycoon and paved the way for a stunning upset after a long and polarizing campaign.
Preliminary exit polls indicate these religious groups voted for Trump by wide margins and, in the case of white evangelicals, wider than they had given to GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2012.
Christians who described themselves as evangelical and born-again gave Trump 81 percent of their votes, up 3 percentage points from their support for Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton garnered 16 percent of their votes.
Donald Trump made the most full-throated and aggressive appeal to evangelical voters
since Ronald Reagan spoke to the Religious Roundtable in August of 1980, Ralph Reed, chairman of the Faith & Freedom Coalition, said the day after the election
http://www.christianheadlines.com/news/white-evangelicals-catholics-and-mormons-carried-trump.html
Just use wedge issues and bamm you get there vote, works every time even though Trump says he doesn't pray because he doesn't do anything wrong, that makes him Godlike in his own eyes.
rwheeler31
(6,242 posts)this pope has been so good on social justice ans climate change.
lapucelle
(18,350 posts)when our bishop (who was booted by the Boston dioceses for his role in the sexual abuse cover-up) had a letter read at all the Masses that was essentially a thinly veiled Trump endorsement.
I know several Catholic nuns quite well, however, and they were all Clinton voters.
MFM008
(19,820 posts)what they have sewn.
LenaBaby61
(6,979 posts)Unfortunately, so will those of us who didn't fall for tRump's lies and BS (But then again, this election was rigged, so :shrug
JI7
(89,275 posts)kimbutgar
(21,206 posts)When they were pushing bush in 2000 that was it for me.
RelativelyJones
(898 posts)from Evangelicals in the 80's. Reagan himself was a kind of Catholic/Evangelical hybrid. The big difference earlier was FDR, but since Reagan it is hard to tell the difference.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)I have no sympathy of the dangers missionaries face. They can go to hell!