By Mark J. Rozell, Gleaves Whitney
ISBN-10: 1403980071
ISBN-13: 9781403980076
George W. Bush has invited extra research and controversy over the impact of faith on his presidency than maybe any chief executive of the trendy era. Opinion on Bush's religiosity is very divisive, with conservative evangelicals seeing him as a guy of deep religion and principles and even as many progressives seeing the president as nearly dangerously fanatical. This quantity is a scholarly assessment and research of the position of faith within the Bush presidency. it truly is divided into sections of essays by means of prime students: the 1st examines the impression of varied spiritual vote casting teams to the 2004 presidential crusade. the second one reports and assesses the influence of faith at the rules of the George W. Bush presidency.
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A review of National Election Studies (NES) data since 1952 shows that Republican identification among evangelicals has reached an all-time high, while the comparable figures among mainline Protestants have fallen to its lowest point since the NES began. Clearly, by 2004, evangelicals have replaced mainliners at the center of the Republican coalition. Evangelicals are also big fans of George W. Bush. Although many Kerry supporters may have been anti-Bush voters, such was not the case with evangelical support for Bush.
Bush’s strength among evangelicals put huge swaths of the country out of reach for Kerry. 8 In eight of the ten toss-up states, evangelicals constituted between 22 and 28 percent of the electoral base; only Pennsylvania and New Mexico were exceptions. On the other hand, of the eight states with the fewest evangelical residents (16 percent or less), seven What Does the Lord Require? 9 Source: Fourth National Survey of Religion and Politics, Bliss Institute of Applied Politics, University of Akron, November–December 2004 (N ϭ 2,730).
2004. “A Question of Values”. html (accessed April 19, 2004). Lardner, George, Jr. 2000. ” Washington Post, March 7, A8. Mayer, Jeremy, and Mark J. Rozell. 2005. “A President Transformed: Bush’s Pre- and Post-September 11 Rhetoric and Image”. In In the Public Domain: Presidents and the Challenges of Public Leadership. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. Moen, Matthew. 1989. The Christian Right and Congress. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press. ——— 1992. The Transformation of the Christian Right.
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