Ethics

McCain Beats Bush on Evangelical Vote

By Ed Brayton

With all the talk about the religious right being anti-McCain, Steven Waldman reports that both the number and percentage of evangelical voters was higher for McCain than it was for Bush in 2004.

It seemed like 2004 was a high water mark for evangelical influence. They loved President Bush and helped sweep him into victory.

Well guess what: evangelicals made up an even bigger part of the McCain vote than the Bush vote.

Born again Christians or evangelicals made up 36% of Bush vote and, by my count, 38% of the McCain vote.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on November 14, 2008 (boomark / email).