johngreen
johngreen is an author at Religion News Service.
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Religious Coalitions and Super Tuesday
By johngreen — February 6, 2008
On Super Tuesday, John McCain benefited greatly from winner-take-all primaries in big states, but he also assembled the broad religious coalition that characterized his previous victories. California is a good example: he won the unaffiliated (43%) and white Catholics (40%), broke even with Romney among white Protestants (37%), and finished second among white evangelical Protestants […]
Single Religious Constituencies and Super Tuesday
By johngreen — February 6, 2008
On Super Tuesday, Mike Huckabee won four Southern states with a strong evangelical vote: Alabama (51% of the white born again Protestant vote), Georgia (45%), and Tennessee (43%), plus his home state of Arkansas. Evangelical votes also allowed him to closely contest Missouri (44%) and Oklahoma (39%). These figures resemble Huckabee’s showing in Iowa, among […]
Religion and Super Tuesday
By johngreen — February 5, 2008
The early presidential contests provide a glimpse of the role religion may play on Super Tuesday. Two patterns are evident in the initial election results: reliance on a single religious constituency and support from a broad coalition of religious groups. Perhaps the best known example of the single-constituency result is Mike Huckabee’s support from evangelicals […]
Huckabee and the Born Again Vote
By johngreen — January 21, 2008
In a previous post, Mark noted Huckabee’s similar performance among born again voters in Iowa (46 percent) and South Carolina (43 percent) and wondered if the religious differences among evangelicals haven’t been overstated. This is a good point: Evangelicals may be more alike than different in the context of a Republican primary. But a look […]
Religion and the NH Primary
By johngreen — January 10, 2008
Religion figured in important and differing ways into the victories of John McCain and Hillary Clinton in this weeks’ New Hampshire primary. On route to a five-percentage point win over Mitt Romney (37 percent to 32 percent), McCain assembled a broad religious coalition. He won pluralities of white Protestants (35 percent to 31 percent), Catholics […]
Huckabee and Catholics
By johngreen — January 10, 2008
Klinkner’s map about the Huckabee vote and Catholics counties in Iowa is pretty interesting. It fits well with what we know about the Huckabee vote from survey data. It may tell us more about the Huckabee campaign than anything else. He won a very large majority of Iowa counties, tapping into the “Protestant majority” in […]
Fueled by the Faithful
By johngreen — January 4, 2008
As anticipated, Mike Huckabee’s victory in the Iowa caucuses was fueled by support from religious conservatives. Huckabee received 46 percent of the votes of self-identified “born-again Christians” among the GOP caucus attenders, according to the National Election Pool “entrance” poll. In addition, he won 56 percent of those who said that “the candidate’s religious beliefs […]
Romney and the Faith Factor
By johngreen — December 27, 2007
Looking back at year’s end on Mitt Romney’s “Faith in America” speech, I see it as a touchstone for the new role of religion in contemporary American politics. The speech contained three major messages that indicate how much more complex faith-based politics have become since John F. Kennedy’s speech to the Houston Ministerial Association in […]
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