What portion of the country is devout?
You're arguing that I'm talking about a minority of a minority and then tarring all Christians.
This is unfair. I said up front devout Christians. Most people are not that devout, devout Christians are a subset of all Christians. I'm very specifically not saying all Christians, just devout ones. Here we're identifying 15% of the population as being devout based on behaviour, and we find that Bush won by 2-1 odds in that group.
But let's change that slightly. Let's widen it to people who are devout enough to go to Church weekly (which is what most religions say that you're supposed to do). If we take the 44% of the population that goes to Church at least once a week we find that (does some calculations) Bush won over Kerry by 60% to 39%. That's a 3-2 margin, which is still fairly overwhelming.
Now there is one thing that I got wrong. These are figures for those who voted. Voter turnout was pathetic. If we make an obvious correction, what I should have said is, an overwhelming majority of voters who call themselves devout Christians voted for Bush in the last election. I think that the evidence is pretty clear for that statement.
Cheers,
Ben
