Thursday Thinking - About New Hampshire

One of the blogs I keep an eye on is the First Thoughts Blog which is part of the website for First Things Magazine. Yesterday, there was a post from Joseph Knippenberg, Professor of Politics at Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA.

Knippenberg made some interesting observations about the New Hampshire primary and the top runners among the republican candidates.

...the 22% of the respondents who described themselves as evangelical or born again gave 76% of their votes to Catholics or Mormons, which is pretty close to the 45% of those who said they were Protestants (78%) and to the 35% of those who said they were Catholics (81%). The 13% who claimed no religious affiliation gave a significant plurality (47%) of their support to Rep. Paul, and a bare majority to the four Catholic or Mormon candidates. In other words, no religious group played identity politics; indeed, only 19% of the self-identified Catholics supported Catholic candidates. Indeed, the most self-consciously Catholic candidate, Rick Santorum, did significantly worse among Catholics (8%) than among evangelicals (23%).

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