Religion, Race, and Politics in U.S. Elections: The “God Gap”

Religion, Race, and Politics in U.S. Elections: The “God Gap”

Original Published on – https://www.gmfus.org/ Engy Abdelkader (Visiting Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the United States)   In 1952, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower received an identical percentage of support (59 percent) among Americans who participated in religious services as those who did not. Today, the so-called “God Gap”—the difference between the voting patterns of religious practitioners versus those who are less observant—is an ostensible fixture of the U.S. political landscape. Since the 1990s, […]

 September 27, 2020