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mitty14u2

(1,015 posts)
Thu Nov 24, 2016, 04:31 PM Nov 2016

White Evangelicals, Catholics and Mormons Carried Trump

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.

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White Evangelicals, Catholics and Mormons Carried Trump (Original Post) mitty14u2 Nov 2016 OP
The Catholics disappointed me most of all. rwheeler31 Nov 2016 #1
I'm a practicing Catholic and was frankly disgusted lapucelle Nov 2016 #4
They will reap MFM008 Nov 2016 #2
They will reap... LenaBaby61 Nov 2016 #3
fuck them all JI7 Nov 2016 #5
This is another reason I am no longer Catholic kimbutgar Nov 2016 #6
A huge percentage of white Catholics became indistinguishable RelativelyJones Nov 2016 #7
Left the Catholic Church in 07' and will NEVER return. Dawson Leery Nov 2016 #8

rwheeler31

(6,242 posts)
1. The Catholics disappointed me most of all.
Thu Nov 24, 2016, 04:34 PM
Nov 2016

this pope has been so good on social justice ans climate change.

lapucelle

(18,350 posts)
4. I'm a practicing Catholic and was frankly disgusted
Thu Nov 24, 2016, 05:18 PM
Nov 2016

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.

LenaBaby61

(6,979 posts)
3. They will reap...
Thu Nov 24, 2016, 05:14 PM
Nov 2016
What they have sewn.

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

RelativelyJones

(898 posts)
7. A huge percentage of white Catholics became indistinguishable
Thu Nov 24, 2016, 05:22 PM
Nov 2016

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)
8. Left the Catholic Church in 07' and will NEVER return.
Thu Nov 24, 2016, 07:34 PM
Nov 2016

I have no sympathy of the dangers missionaries face. They can go to hell!

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