Dan Gilgoff at God-o-Meter responds to Faith in Public Life’s claim that Obama’s success among religious voters stems from “Democrats’ faith outreach, the rise of the Religious Left, and shifting terrain on hot button issues among evangelicals and the broader electorate”:
But Faith in Public Life has left out the biggest reason for the shift of various faith constituencies to the Democratic column. It’s the economy, stupid.
Beliefnet’s recent 12 Tribes of American politics survey showed that economic woes had dramatically eclipsed hot button social issues like abortion and same-sex marriage. In one of the most dramatic examples, one in three Latino Christians said social issues were most important in 2004, when Bush won 45-percent of them. This year, only one in eight say those social issues are most important. And 61 percent say the economy is their topmost concern.
The Iraq war, too, has turned off relgious voters to the GOP.
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AMA citation:
Braunstein R. Will the Religious Left take too much credit?. The Immanent Frame. 2008. Available at: http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/11/05/will-the-religious-left-take-too-much-credit/. Accessed November 21, 2009.
APA citation:
Braunstein, Ruth. (2008). Will the Religious Left take too much credit?. Retrieved November 21, 2009, from The Immanent Frame Web site: http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/11/05/will-the-religious-left-take-too-much-credit/
Chicago citation:
Braunstein, Ruth. 2008. Will the Religious Left take too much credit?. The Immanent Frame. http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/11/05/will-the-religious-left-take-too-much-credit/ (accessed November 21, 2009).
Harvard citation:
Braunstein, R 2008, Will the Religious Left take too much credit?, The Immanent Frame. Retrieved November 21, 2009, from <http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/11/05/will-the-religious-left-take-too-much-credit/>
MLA citation:
Braunstein, Ruth. "Will the Religious Left take too much credit?." 5 Nov. 2008. The Immanent Frame. Accessed 21 Nov. 2009. <http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/11/05/will-the-religious-left-take-too-much-credit/>
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November 6th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Also note Dan’s follow-up post, where he posted our response.