Christian Women Surveyed On What Voting Issues Matter The Most
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Barna Group, an evangelical Christian polling firm, released the final report in a four-part series on “Christian Women Today” on Tuesday, revealing statistics concerning the influence of Christian women voters and what issues concern them the most. According to the research, churchgoing Christian women will make up the largest category of voters for the 2012 Presidential Election. While 79% of these women said they “definitely plan to vote” this fall, only 76% of churchgoing men, 60% of non-churchgoing men and 52% of non-churchgoing women said they plan to vote as well.
As a result of these findings, Barna Group is projecting that 30% of voters in the upcoming election will be churchgoing women- making them the largest voting segment. “Representing such a high percentage of the population and with such a strong likelihood to vote, Christian women are a particularly important group for politicians and pundits to pay attention to this fall,” the study says.
Contrary to popular belief, the report shows that Christian women are less concerned about social issues (e.g. abortion, gay marriage) and more concerned with policies (e.g. healthcare, employment). The Christian women surveyed for the study were asked to identify which election issues will have “a lot” of influence on their voting decisions, and the top three issues on the list were health care (75%), taxes (62%) and employment policies (58%) above everything else. Issues like gay marriage (31%) and abortion (29%) were actually at the bottom of the list, and ranked only above environmental policy (25%).
President of Barna Group, David Kinnaman, attributes the shocking results to the economy. “During harder economic times, moral issues are less of a priority than the pressure of finances, jobs and survival,” he said in a statement in the study. “Though it has never been accurate that Christian voters only care about two issues – abortion and gay marriage – the influence of issues typically associated with the ‘Christian right’ may be more diffused than in previous contests.”
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Poverty breeds crime and corruption. It should be the number one criteria in voting. A healthy person without money to buy decent food will always return to being unhealthy. Jobs are the most important thing.
Idle hands are the devil’s worshop. Truer words were never spoken. When joblessness reduces, crime and corruption will reduce along with it..
Paul Ryan dating a black woman openly with honor and respect 20 years ago, means a lot about him as a person. Inter-racial dating between white men and black women were very rare in those days. Those pics of her sitting on his lap, while he lovingly embraces her with pride and respect, in front of the entire school, likely opened him up to severe ridicule from the rascist white faction. He sees no color. He is a good and fair man. The girl he dated wasn’t even that cute. Most black boys probably wouldn’t have given her a second look cause she aint high yella.
On the other hand we have obama, who NEVER dated a black girl in high school or college, suddenly comes to Chicago, tells Michelle (by her own admission) that their relationship is politically motivated and fools are acting like he is the Black Knight in Shining Armor. That harvard crowd who picks a lot of presidents handpicked her for him because she is the daughter of an uncle tom, who begged blacks folks to vote for Daley.