Regular churchgoers in United States preferred Mitt Romney

Regular churchgoers in United States preferred Mitt RomneyExit polling following the United States presidential election has found that regular churchgoers voted for defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney by wide margins. According to one exit poll released through CNN, 42 per cent of Protestant Christians voted for Barack Obama and 57 per cent for Romney. Among the nation's Catholics, 50 percent voted for Obama and 48 percent for Romney. The poll found that those who attended church regularly were more likely to vote for Romney than for Obama.

You can browse more latest Missionaries News Updates

Among those who identified themselves as Protestant or Catholic but said they "never" attended religious services, 62 per cent voted for Obama and 34 per cent for Romney. Just over half (55 per cent) of those who said they attend "occasionally" voted for Obama and 43 per cent for Romney. However, among those who said they attend church "weekly", 39 per cent voted for Obama but 59 per cent voted for Romney.

A second national poll of voters commissioned by the Faith and Freedom Coalition reported that 78 per cent of white evangelicals voted for Romney compared to just 21 per cent for Obama. Romney's performance among evangelicals represented a net swing of 10 per cent over John McCain's performance in 2008. It also reported that white evangelicals had increased to 27 per cent of voters.

Among Catholic voters who said they regularly attend mass, 67 per cent voted for Romney compared to 32 per cent for Obama, representing a swing of 35 per cent in the direction of the Republicans since 2008. Romney also won white Catholics by a margin of 59 per cent to 40 per cent.

President of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, Mark Tooley, said: "Despite hopes for liberal inroads among church groups, especially evangelicals, it appears that evangelicals and traditional Catholics voted strongly along conservative lines. "Undoubtedly they were motivated at least partly by issues such as marriage, abortion and religious freedom, especially the HHS contraceptive mandate on religious groups.

"Whatever the reasons for the election's final result, it seemingly is not due to lack of active concern from tens of millions of evangelicals and traditional Catholics."

Browse Beautiful World Heritage Sites. More Missionaries News Updates

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

D G S Dhinakaran

Image
Dr.Duraisamy Geoffery Samuel Dhinakaran, was an Indian Evangelical Preacher and founder of the Jesus Calls Ministry, born on July 1, 1935 at Surandai in Tirunelveli District of Tamil Nadu, India. He attended St.John`s college, Palayamkottai and subsequently was awarded a Bachelor degree in Mathematics from Madras University in 1955. He had a very tough life being torn by the ailments of poverty and agony of unemployment. Unable to bear the agony of these problems, on February 11, 1955, Dr.D.G.S.Dhinakaran decided to put an end to his life. He started towards the nearest railway track in his village to throw himself before the speeding train when he was stopped by his uncle who introduced Jesus Christ. He experienced a sudden wave of divine peace and hope, flood his heart. His mind was transformed and he returned home enlightened. After this incident, things started happening in him supernaturally. There arose an unquenchable thirst in him to spend hours together poring over the lif...
More +

India Celebrates World Sunday School Day

Image
The "World Sunday School" was founded with a great challenge to save and shape the children community after seeing thousands and thousands of street children who neither go to school nor to Church by Serampore trio (William Carey, Joshua Marshman, and William Ward) in India at 1803. Every year first Sunday of November, the "World Sunday School Day", was observed by the Churches. The day is being observed to commemorate the day and its significant change of effective effects towards this modern world especially to the children of the Sunday School in nurturing their shape in way of how a good Christian by birth should adapt to grow in the society through the foot-steps of Christianity's religion principles.
More +

Charles Mead

Image
Rev.Charles Mead was the Father of the South Travancore Mission, born on 1st October 1792 at Bristol, Gloucester, England. He was brought up by his uncle Rev.John Hunt at Wakefield, Yorkshire, attended Gosport Missionary School and ordained at Chichester on 6th March 1816. According to the London Mission Society’s report, Rev.Charles Mead was nominated for Travancore as Rev.Ringeltaube’s successor. He married Rev.Hunt’s daughter. He left from England on 20th April, 1816 for Travancore and arrived at Madras on 28th August 1816 along with Rev.Richard Knill, who known as the pastor of the church at St Petersburg. He was received by Rev.Loveless, who was the first England missionary of Madras. Rev.Mead was detained a considerable time at Rev.Loveless’s house at Madras by his wife's ill-health and he studied Tamil. There after he gave early intimation of his arrival to Col.Munro and consulted him on various subjects related to the mission affairs and solicited help. After one year back,...
More +