The math is stunning. White evangelicals are now just 15% of the population. But because they vote so regularly, they are HALF of a potential electoral majority. https://t.co/gnrQ938Ddu
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) July 13, 2019
That is an incredible chart.
And one that progressives need to keep in mind for 2020.
Here is more courtesy of NYT:
In a June 25 Atlantic essay “The Electoral Time Machine That Could Re-elect Trump,” Robert P. Jones, founder and C.E.O. of the Public Religion Research Institute, showed that white evangelical Christians have successfully maintained their strength as a voting bloc despite declining as a share of the population.
The accompanying chart, covering elections from 2004 to 2018, shows that as a share of the population, white evangelical protestants have fallen precipitously from 23 percent in 2004 to 15 percent in 2018.
Over the same period, however, their share of the electorate actually grew, from 23 percent to 26 percent in 2008, and stayed at that level through the 2018 election.
What this demonstrates is that white Christians are deeply committed to challenging the ascendance of liberalism marked by the election of Barack Obama in 2008.
White evangelical Protestants remain more opposed to gay marriage than other religious constituencies, including Mormons — another political rationale for Trump to adopt policies adversarial to the LGBT community.
Trump portrays his political opponents — Democrats are “sick people” and the media are “enemies of the people” — as threats to the social order, aware that tapping into voter anger and anxiety is one of the most effective tools to drive up election turnout.
Alex Gage, head of TargetPoint Consulting, a Republican firm specializing in voter mobilization, found that “anger is a much stronger motivation” than recounting the beneficial things a politician has done.
Trump has aligned himself with two overlapping, declining constituencies that are clearly motivated by a combination of anger, resentment and anxiety — white evangelical Christians and whites without college degrees.
If Trump is to win re-election next year, he must raise the stakes for these two sets of voters so that they turn out in unprecedented numbers. Demonizing immigrants and other minorities is crucial to this strategy.
That is what we are up against in 2020.
An angry mob of religious zealots who believe that their version of America is under assault and their only hope for surivival is an orange skinned New York businessman and former reality TV star who lies with reckless abandon and vilifies any who dare speak out against him.
It does not matter if Trump is their idea of a dream candidate or not.
He is all they have and like the sheep they are they will be herded by their religious leaders in whichever direction the GOP points.
To defeat that we have to show that same determination in getting out the vote.
It does not matter if our favorite candidate wins the nomination or not, what matters is that the Democrats and liberal leaning independents show up in droves and crush the Evangelical vote under the weight of our superior numbers.
Evangelicals: Trump was sent by God.
NO he wasn’t.
Evangelicals: The sooner we destroy the planet, the faster Jesus will come back.
NO one know the day nor the hour.
Given their behavior, I’ll bet their bibles have an inch of dust.
The people they elect caught up in every form of scandal and debauchery.
It’s okay, they’re Christian and this is a Christian country.
Says WHO? Show me where in the constitution.
Sometimes I cruise the channels and noticed that Hallmark seems to pushing an agenda. With all those white romances and christmas being pushed. I just wonder what the hell? But I guess there are those that insist on living in a bubble. Nothing we can do about that. People choose to believe what they want and push their agenda. But now, in this case it is affecting us others. Time for action. Because these bubble people want a leave it to ozzie and harriet reality, and they chose the most immoral man to do that for them shows that they are sheeple and can be led over the cliff. Yes, they made the Franklin Grahams, Huckabees, and Robertson’s their on earth gods. And Donald is their golden calf. And in the bible, we know what happened when Moses came down from the mountain and found that they had erected a god because of their lack of faith. So be it. What you sow on this earth will be your’ just reward. The end. No ifs and buts. That’s all she wrote. Now, people outside that bubble need to stop letting Putin manipulate their stupidity and start thinking for themselves. American’s use to pride themselves on being innovative thinkers. Now we wait like bitches for Shaun Hannity to plant bullshit thoughts into our heads. If we become a ruled people by the like of Putin’s puppet then we don’t deserve the America we were all striving to be until Putin devised this grandiose plan to undermine us free thinkers by using the dimwits in our country to do just that.
I have been saying this for years, the minority is telling the majority what to do. Trump won the electoral college by 77,000, it was no landslide, he barely won. And if all those people that sat home because they hate Hillary, thanks alot, look where that got us.