White evangelicals stand by Roy Moore: poll shows candidates neck-and-neck

[applegrove]

https://thinkprogress.org/moore-poll-white-evangelicals-00b222fa54a1/amp/

By E. A. Drunken at Think Progress

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Alabama’s Senate race is now neck-and-neck with one crucial demographic holding on to support for Republican candidate and accused serial sexual predator Roy Moore: white evangelical Christians.

With the election less than two weeks away, a new Washington Post-Schar School poll shows Democrat Doug Jones leading his opponent 50 to 47 among voters. That poll, published Saturday, notes that a margin of more than nine points is needed to be significant. If the poll is correct, the race is a toss-up — remarkable in overwhelmingly conservative Alabama.

But the poll offers another revealing statistic: while Moore trails Jones by 3 percent among voters overall, he continues to lead him among white voters by 30 percent. That margin becomes even starker among white evangelical protestants, who favor Moore by 78 percent — a 59-percent margin.

Moore’s continued popularity with deeply religious white evangelical voters is an enduring theme of the election. His victory in the Alabama Republican primary was widely considered a victory for Christian nationalism — unsurprising given Moore’s history as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. While in the position, Moore erected a 5,200-pound monument of the Ten Commandments in the lobby of the state judicial building; he later refused to remove it despite public outcry. As a Senate candidate, Moore has doubled down on his extremist stance, actively pushing for Christian education, implying that Muslims should not serve in government, and failing to clarify his stance on the rights of LGBTQ people.

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[dalton99a]

1. I suppose it's hard to find a non-child-molesting candidate to represent them

[Steven Maurer]

2. Republicans complain about "RINOs", some Democrats "DINOs"

These people are "CINOs". Christian in Name Only.

[Gabi Hayes]

4. CMIR

Get it?

[rusty quoin]

3. Why would anyone normal attend a white evangelical church,

when they think that any Democrat is one step below a pedophile. Keep it going. The original Pilgrims to America were evangelicals.

Now days they have reversed why the Puritans separated, only to become what the originals had hated.

Good show.

[pansypoo53219]

5. HE SAVES FETUSES & HATES GAYS! he likes little girls. NOT BOYS!

children? meh.

[world wide wally]

6. As long as you CALL yourself a devout Christian.... you win

Doesn't have anything to do with how you act.