Evangelical Voters
Evangelical voters, who comprise the core of America's
values voters,
have been and continue to be pivotal to winning presidential elections.
Donald
Trump picked
Mike
Pence as his running mate to draw the evangelical vote and won in 2016. George W. Bush won in 2000 and 2004 by keeping
the evangelical vote
united, while
Barack Obama and
Bill Clinton won in 2008 & 2012 and 1992 & 1996, respectively, by splitting and
siphoning away some of the evangelical vote.
What makes the evangelical voters so sought after by the
presidential
candidates is that
besides influencing the rest of the
conservative voters,
the evangelical voters can be counted on to show up at the polls, rain
or
snow.
Ted Cruz's upset win over
Donald Trump
in the 2016 Iowa caucus is attributed in part to the high turnout of Cruz's evangelical supporters in poor weather.
How many evangelical voters are there?
While 35% of American voters identify themselves as evangelical, the number
of truly evangelical voters - those who believe the Gospel* of the Bible,
including Jesus' deity (see
Lord, Liar or Lunatic), justice (see
Justice of God) and resurrection (see
Jesus Resurrection Proof) - comprise only about 7% of American voters.
* "Evangelical" comes from
Evangile, a French
Huguenot word
that means "Gospel" and which dates back to the early years of the Reformation.
Around which issues are the evangelical voters coalescing in 2020?
Will abortion (see
Abortion is Murder) and homosexual marriage retake center-stage, or will the U.S. Supreme
Court's ruling in
Obergefell v Hodges (see
Ages of
Supreme Court Justices) be considered water under the bridge and
homosexual marriage be relegated to a second-tier issue (see
Bible verses about Homosexuality)?
And how much focus will there on the threat from
North Korea and Islam, both
at home and abroad (see
Islam: what the West needs to
know), our national debt, economy,
healthcare and immigration (see
America in
Decline)?
This
Christian Voter Guide addresses these and other
key issues through Christian testimonies and analyses of the
Presidential
Candidates, your
Opinions, our
Answers
and
Questions, and major
News.