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Go Figure

Recent statistics on who voted Democrat and churches offering election materials.

67%

Voters who never go to church who voted Democratic in 2006.

55%

Voters who never go to church who did so in 2002.

41%

White evangelicals who say they are unhappy that the Democrats won the midterm election.

41%

White evangelicals who say they are happy that the Democrats won.

50%

Black Protestants who say their churches offered election materials.

30%

White evangelicals who reported this.

Source: Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

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Belonging Before Believing

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The Problem with Mere Christianity

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Saints Gone Wild

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Bottom-Up Discipline

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Riding the Pope's Coattails

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Modernity's Art Form

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