Q&A: Will Evangelical Voters Rally Around a Single Candidate in 2008?
With several primary contests completed and Super
Tuesday fast approaching, Forum Associate Director Mark O'Keefe and Senior
Research Fellow John Green discussed
the vote of evangelical Christians in the 2008 presidential election. Green and
O'Keefe spoke about evangelical voting patterns in the early primaries,
evangelical response to Mitt Romney being a Mormon, the changing composition of
the Republican and Democratic fields and Democratic efforts to reach out to
evangelical voters. Read the Q&A »
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Religion and
Geography in the Florida Primary
Despite
losing many of its national convention delegates, Florida is moving ahead with its primaries
on Jan. 29. A Religion & Politics '08 analysis of Florida shows that in the northern part of
the state, the Christian right is the politically dominant religious movement.
In southern Florida,
however, Jewish and Roman Catholic communities are key players in the political
process. As a result, political battles - especially primaries - are often won
and lost in the state's center. Read more »
See Religion & Politics '08 candidate profiles, state
profiles, survey analyses and more »
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Poll Finds Religion,
Ideology Shaping Republican Race
A Pew Research
Center poll released last
week finds that the race for the Republican nomination is being increasingly shaped by religion and ideology
as it moves toward Super Tuesday. Mike Huckabee led the field among
conservative evangelicals, drawing 33% of their votes compared with 25% for John McCain and 12%
for Mitt Romney. Among non-evangelical conservative Republicans, Romney led
McCain and far outdistanced Huckabee and the rest of the GOP field. Read more at
people-press.org »
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Jan. 20 - The Financial Times
Huckabee
Struggles to Draw Christian Right
The Financial Times turns to Religion & Politics '08 for information on Florida's religious
environment in advance of next week's primaries there.
Read more Pew Forum in the News
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