This poll is poorly constructed. A person might have been “A conservative based on religious-based or related considerations” and then bought into the other aspects of conservatism and became “A conservative in general”. In this poll that person would be seen as a ‘loss’ for religious conservatism.
Clearly, the nonstop leftist attack on the “religious right” is delivering the goods. Conservatives who still believe in God and attend church have been demonized by leftists who don’t want any standards, morals or ethics imposed on them or their actions.
Go figure!
The political elites are getting what they want - a class of voters so disenfranchised that no one bothers to vote, thus allowing them to run unopposed and keep their overpaid, pointless political elected position.
And, we wonder why the government produces so much dreck legislation!!
If the GOP continues to ignore its small-government roots and focus so much of its platform on religious conservatives, it will be fighting yesterday's political campaign. The Democrats are getting a lot of votes from people who ought to be recoiling from their irresposible spending and fantasy/fact confusion in utter disgust...but the Republicans aren't giving them any real alternative.
Approximately 20% of Bush voters in 04 identified themselves as evangelical Christians in exit polls. And that didn't include the many devout Catholics who are also social conservatives, and in many cases even more fervently pro-life than evangelicals. If just 20% of that sector of Bush voters had stayed home that day Kerry would now be president. Bush himself may have lost the support of a portion of those voters along with a portion of the non-religious conservative bloc who are very much disappointed by his lukewarm overall conservatism, but I don't believe that the party itself has lost enough of them to make that bloc as insignificant as this polltaker would like us to believe.
I still maintain that if Rudy wins the nomination Hillary will be the next president. The one thing I know for reasonably sure is that only one member of my 14 member extended family has said that she will vote for Rudy if he's nominated, and she will only vote for him because she detests Hillary so vehemently. The others, myself included, say they will vote for the Republican candidates for Congress and state offices, but either skip over the presidential space on the ballot or vote for a minor party nominee. We are all socially conservative evangelical Christians, and I can't believe that our voting intentions regarding the '08 election are as far out of line with other voters in that same category as this article would have us believe.
In primaries where the candidate with the highest vote total wins the entire slate of delegates, Rudy may well win enough delegates to take the nomination at the convention due to the large field of candidates. But that won't necessarily translate into a victory in November of '08 where electoral votes are the key element in the race.
It seems we see it here at FreeRepublic on a daily basis. Keep in mind, a country that does not love the Lord will perish.
Ping to read later
I think that, to the extent the religious conservative vote is declining, it has primarily to do with shifting priorities. In today’s world, a lot of folks probably consider Islamist terrorism and the looming Social Security/Medicare crisis to be somewhat more important issues than getting abortion banned, stamping out porn, or making sure homosexuals can’t marry. Social issues are kind of suited to a time when we don’t have to worry about our society’s physical survival and fiscal solvency.
barf alert.
“New Survey: “Religious Conservatives” A Shrinking Influence Among Voters”
Funny that as Foxsnooze and the RNC are doing their level best to shove that piece of filth Rudy on us, there are an awful lot of these articles hitting the wires.