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Just over half of interviewees (51%) in a Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University study, who identified as "people of faith," responded that they are likely to vote in the presidential election between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. The "people of faith" label is given to those who identify with a recognized religion, such as Christianity, Judaism, Mormonism or Islam.

The study found that approximately 104 million people under the "people of faith" umbrella are not expected to vote this election, including 41 million born-again Christians and 32 million who regularly go to church.

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[–] [email protected] 128 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Anecdotal, but there was considerable dissatisfaction and exhaustion with Trump amongst the religious in my hometown back in 2020. Most of them still supported and voted for him, but that any peeled off was novel. Not that they'd ever vote Dem, but simply not voting GOP in a presidential election was a big deal. It's not inconceivable that the number has increased since.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 6 days ago (23 children)

Perhaps one or two could even be convinced to support the party that advocates for charity, kindness and goodwill to the poor. Responsible stewardship of gods creation. Openness to forgiveness and redemption for criminals. Treating your neighbors well. Just generally doing unto others as you would have them do unto you, even when you do not fully understand them.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

No, let's stick to pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps the same way Jesus did: by having a powerful father.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

No that's communism, they'd say

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

but abortion

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They're fine with charity as long as they decide who is deserving of the money. They love government handouts as long as they are going to Christofascist pursuits. Just as Jesus taught us, I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago (2 children)

If they get write-in ballots, maybe write "Jesus Christ."

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Get out of here donagy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"Votes for Jesus go to the Republican."

  • Leslie Knope
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Can they please not vote every year? A lot of them will be people who vote based on irrational ideas, so that'd be a win for reasonable people.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago (2 children)

“Christians” is doing some heavy lifting in this headline

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Seriously, though. “Christians” includes anyone within the net of the Abrahamic religions? This is the widest cast of people possible makes everything said after the title insignificant.

What might be significant, though, is the Muslim population that is disappointed in Harris for not taking a harder stance against Israel, and has threatened not to vote at all.

Personally, I think it’s asinine to avoid a vote because the options are between someone who is not taking a hard line against Israel, and another who is on the record saying that Israel should “finish the job”, but then… I’m not a single-issue voter, so these things affect me differently.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

I'm not Muslim, but if my options were to vote for someone who wants to kill my family vs someone who won't stop selling weapons to those who are actively killing my family, I can understand why they wouldn't be super excited at those choices.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago

I skimmed the study itself but couldn't find how this compares to 2020 turnout of the same group. Just that it's "lower" and has a +/- of 4% margin.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Yeah, don't count on it. Republicans always vote and they are always vote shitty.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Considering about 30% of the general population votes, this is pretty significant - 20% more christians will vote than Gen pop

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Where are you getting those numbers from?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hmm, it looks like i got confused by this statistic:

Overall, 70% of U.S. adult citizens who were eligible to participate in all three elections between 2018 and 2022 voted in at least one of them, with about half that share (37%) voting in all three.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/07/12/voter-turnout-2018-2022

Which says the national average voter turnout for all 3 elections is 37%. The actual national average turnout for any individual election is about 46-66% depending on if it's a midterm or not. Since this one is not a midterm election, assuming 50% of Christians are voting, this gives non-Christians an advantage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

That's understandable.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (4 children)

How did I miss this story?!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

Works for me. Fuck em

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It’s not enough to not to vote. It’s critical the we vote AGAINST any and all of these extremists. That’s the only way to begin bringing any sanity to our political dialogue.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (7 children)

We live in a two party system. Not voting for your guy is essentially a vote for the other guy. Especially when elections are this close.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

It would be ironic if all they did was show up to overturn roe, and this election would have had them sit out the election, but then due to the abortion ammendments they were pushed back into voting.

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