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YessirAtsaFact

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6. There's another explanation

Reply to guillaumeb (Original post)

Wed Nov 14, 2018, 12:14 PM

Nov 2018

A group can be 15% of the registered voters and 26% of the electorate because a larger percentage of this group votes than the percentage of all registered voters who vote.

The looniest evangelicals I know always vote. Tornado warnings couldn’t keep them from voting.

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A lot of white evangelical voters aren't evangelicals [View all] guillaumeb Nov 2018 OP

Agreed that there are good people lumped in with bad Cary Nov 2018 #1

There is a reason that white supremacists re comfortable in the GOP. guillaumeb Nov 2018 #5

You"ve got that right but it was meant as an example Cary Nov 2018 #11

Since not all people who are eligible to vote do vote, MineralMan Nov 2018 #2

Yes, but d_r Nov 2018 #10

You can almost tell what kind of Christian someone is by the political party they identify with. CrispyQ Nov 2018 #3

Understood. Well said. eom guillaumeb Nov 2018 #4

There's another explanation YessirAtsaFact Nov 2018 #6

I agree. One example: guillaumeb Nov 2018 #7

A simple, more likely explanation . . . OneBro Nov 2018 #8

The post also talks about how people label themselves. guillaumeb Nov 2018 #9