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Young Evangelicals Are Less Republican, Still Quite Conservative

05 Oct 2007 01:01 pm

Pew's latest microsurvey picks up some interesting juts.

-- Pres. Bush's popularity has fallen precipitously among evangelicals who are 18-29.

-- In 2001, 55% of white young evangelicals said they were Republican. In 2007, 40% do -- although most of the movers haven't become Democrats. Pew says the shift among older evangelicals "has been less dramatic."

-- The aggregate ideological leanings of this group hasn't changed since 2001. A plurality -- 44% -- are conservative. But a majority consider themselves either moderate or liberal.

-- They're more pro-life than their parents.

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Support for abortion will continue to erode in this country as more people realize how inhumane and unnecessary it is.

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Posted by Peter | October 5, 2007 2:27 PM

How do they feel about contraception? To me, if you hate abortion you should love contraception, but how many of the abortion-haters do? Even non-Catholics?

Posted by Phoebe | October 5, 2007 3:02 PM

Support for abortion-rights will continue to be a position of the large majority of Americans. That majority will grow as it becomes clearer that the agenda of anti-choice enthusiasts includes opposition to contraception. It will become larger still when it becomes clear that strict anti-abortionists oppose In-Vitro-Fertiliization and Stem-Cell-Research.

Posted by JohnMcC | October 5, 2007 3:04 PM

There are some who even make the Darwinian case for why we'll eventually evolve to be pro-life. One scientist recently took things real far and posited a "mommy" gene.
I think there is a "little" something to it, but mostly I think it's too deterministic.

Anyways, I'm not too surprised about the reaction to Bush since he is, at heart, a liberal. A Wilsonian "Invade the world, invite world" because differences are only skin deep, cultures and histories don't matter so we're infinitely malleable, right?... A Right-liberal, but a liberal nonetheless.

Posted by Emily | October 5, 2007 10:04 PM