Views about size of government among republicans and Republican leaners by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among republicans and Republican leaners by views about size of government
% of republicans and Republican leaners who would rather have…
Interpreting scripture | Smaller government; fewer services | Bigger government; more services | Depends | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 73% | 23% | 1% | 2% | 4,765 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 81% | 17% | 1% | 1% | 4,660 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 76% | 12% | 5% | 7% | 459 |
Not the word of God | 80% | 17% | 1% | 1% | 3,024 |
Other/don't know | 77% | 16% | 3% | 3% | 823 |
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