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Polls Show Religious Whites Jumping From GOP Ship

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Elections, Religion

First this:

The Democrats made gains across all groups in the October poll compared to the averages in previous months. But the Democratic gain (or Republican loss depending on how one looks at it) is more significant among religious whites than among the other two groups. Religious whites went from an average Democratic disadvantage of 23 points across the June through September months, to dead even in October. Less religious whites shifted only seven points across these two time periods, while the group of “all others” shifted 9 points.

A comparison of the September average to October shows a 22-point gain for the Democrats among white frequent churchgoers, a six-point gain among white less frequent churchgoers, and a 14-point gain among all others.

Grim stuff for the majority party.

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One Response to “Polls Show Religious Whites Jumping From GOP Ship”

JustAnotherIdjut Says:
October 13th, 2006 at 11:38 am
Maybe more white Dem’s have gotten religion recently, and there’s not really any correlation.

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