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Evangelicals Comprise Nearly 30% of Voters

11/3/10

According to a post-election survey conducted by Public Opinion Strategies for the Faith and Freedom Coalition, the largest single constituency in the electorate in the 2010 midterm elections was self-identified evangelicals, who comprised 29% of the vote. This turnout represented a 5 percent increase in evangelical turnout over 2006 and was the largest ever recorded in a midterm election. Evangelicals were joined by frequently church-attending Roman Catholic voters, who constituted 12 percent of the vote. “People of faith turned out in the highest numbers in a midterm election we have ever seen, and they made an invaluable contribution to the historic results,” said Ralph Reed, founder and chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition. “This survey, along with numerous exit polls, makes it clear that those who ignore or disregard social conservative voters and their issues do so at their own peril.”