Posted on 08/13/2008 11:43:31 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
Here are the polling numbers from the article:
61% McCain, 17% Obama: Evangelicals
28% McCain, 44% Obama: nominal Christians
29% McCain, 39% Obama: Catholics
32% McCain, 43% Obama: Protestants
24% McCain, 56% Obama: "faiths other than Christianity"
17% McCain, 55% Obama: atheists and agnostics
Notice how other coverage spins the story in different directions:
Life News: Poll Shows Evangelical Christians Back McCain, Catholics Mostly Undecided
The Atlantic Monthly: Obama Leads Among Christians
Dot Commonweal: New Barna Group Survey on Religion and the Presidential Election
Bostom.com: Signs of change among faith voters?
Catholics? Not real ones.
"Nominal Christians" is a Faith Community???
I believe they're considered a Hope Community.
Yup - and they also include agnostics and atheists as a segment of the “faith community”.
Go figure.
BS. He wouldn't be chastising his “base” for clinging to religion if he really had the support.
How is his support from non-practicing muslim absent fathers?
“Obama yet to win over evangelicals”
He believes in executing babies for the crime of having survived an abortion attempt. I fail to see how any christian worthy of the name could back the man.
Nice how they lumped Jews and Muslims in together, isn’t it?
I think this is just another skewed survey designed to make the Messiah appear as HE WHO heals all the world’s ills, including those pesky religious rifts.
add this one:
http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=89875
“A new Gallup Poll claims to show that registered voters who say religion is important in their lives tend to support presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain by a margin of 50 to 40 percent, while those who say religion is unimportant to their lives tend to support presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama by a margin of 55 to 36 percent.”
“Nominal Christians” = Methodists/Episcopalians.
;-) (yes, just joking)
I am not a Christian and don’t claim to be one but I don’t understand it either.
The evangelical community is the only faith segment that Barack Obama has not won the majority support of, a new survey found.
The only religious group not completely given over to crack monkey craziness.
; and Protestants (43 per cent vs 32 per cent).
Christianity Today, right? You'd think someone there'd be aware that "evangelical" is a subset of "protestant".
even non-evangelical born-again Christians
Barna's categories need to be carefully scrutinized.
"McCain. Slightly less heinous."
You got that right. Did you hear about that Bishop,can’t remember his name,who said voting for a pro-choice candidate was sinful.
I don’t think Obama will win over evangelicals or the REAL Catholics.
Thanks for that link.
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