{"id":1457,"date":"2004-11-13T13:15:09","date_gmt":"2004-11-13T20:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/born-again-voters\/"},"modified":"2004-11-13T13:15:09","modified_gmt":"2004-11-13T20:15:09","slug":"born-again-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/born-again-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Born-again Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Christian News - The Christian Post | Survey: Born Again Christians Made Major Impact on Bush's Re-election\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/dbase\/society\/1161\/section\/1.htm\">Christian News &#8211; The Christian Post | Survey: Born Again Christians Made Major Impact on Bush&#8217;s Re-election<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The survey, which involved interviewing 1004 adults over the phone, reported that born again Christians supported President George W. Bush by a 62% to 38% margin. Non-born again voters were more likely to support Senator John Kerry than Bush, 59 to 39 percent.<\/p>\n<p><b>Although the born again population constitutes just 38% of the national population, the survey said, it represented 53% of the vote cast in the election.<\/b> The survey suggested that if the born again public had shown up proportional to its population size, Senator Kerry would have won the election by the same three-point margin of victory enjoyed by Mr. Bush.<\/p>\n<p>Evangelical Christians also helped re-elect Bush, constituting 11% of the voters and chose President Bush by an 85% to 15% margin, shows the survey.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do these statistics say that &#8220;born-again&#8221; and &#8220;Evangelical&#8221; are not the same thing? And there are more &#8220;born-again&#8221;? mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian News &#8211; The Christian Post | Survey: Born Again Christians Made Major Impact on Bush&#8217;s Re-election The survey, which involved interviewing 1004 adults over the phone, reported that born again Christians supported President George W. Bush by a 62% to 38% margin. Non-born again voters were more likely to support Senator John Kerry than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/born-again-voters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Born-again Voters<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}