To: Neeka who wrote (123493 ) 7/6/2005 10:57:01 AM From: neolib Read Replies (1) | Respond to The total number of American Evangelicals is around 50M, but that number is a little hard to pin down because the boundaries are fuzzy. Generally speaking evangelicals believe in a literal reading of the Bible, hence the problem with modern science. About 25M voted in the last election with around 80% going for Bush IIRC. The biggest block of Evangelicals that voted Dem are Black Evangelicals (who voted dem by about 80% as well??) I'd like to see good data on the white evangelical political split by itself, but it must be in the high 80's. The black alignment with Dems is for historical racial reasons, something I expect to shift in favor of Republicans, but who knows. You make it sound like we all need to be on the lookout for an all out takeover of American politics by the "religious right." I don't know......do you believe Evangelicals, or Christians in general, are sinister? I ask because I read posts like yours allot on SI and I thought you could provide an insight that others seem to be unable or incapable of giving. Maybe I'm misreading your posts?
