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Title: Liberals losing evangelical voters, says EFC study
Category: Political
Posted By: leewgrant
Date: 2009-10-12 07:29:14
Canadian

[leewgrant]

$1:

According to the recently-released EFC study, "Canadian Evangelical Voting Trends by Region, 1996-2008," which uses a series of electoral polls by Ipsos Reid and Angus Reid Strategies, in 1996 the Evangelical support for the Liberals was 35 per cent and it has been rapidly going down to 11 per cent in the last election, as the Conservative vote rose. The Conservatives' support from evangelical Christians peaked in 2006, with 60 per cent of the Evangelical vote and then dropped to 48 per cent in 2008. The NDP vote in 2008 was at 16 per cent among evangelicals.

I'm surprised that the Liberals had any kind of evangelical vote. Their most defining social initiative in the past half-century was the decrimming of abortion and homosexuality by Pierre Trudeau. And the last two Liberal PMs were staunchly pro-abort.

But it's hardly surprising that with the develop of Reform and its morphing into the Alliance and now the CPC that evangelical support has shifted away from the Libs. But the loss of evangelical support for the Tories is not surprising. There has been a definite shift to the centre on social conservative issues by the party.

As for Ignatieff - he doesn't look like an evangelical kind of guy.

[CommanderSock]

Liberal evangelical vote? What?

Why would evangelicals support a pro abortion party?

[herbie]

Because there aren't any others?
They're welcome to stay home and not vote!

[BartSimpson]

I'm surprised that any Evangelicals would vote Liberal. But then no end of Catholics always vote Democrat down here despite the fact that the Dems champion policies that are directly in conflict with the Roman Catholic Church. At the same time I'me sure plenty of hard-core atheists vote Conservative/Republican.

[sandorski]

Canadian Evangelicals are nothing like their US counter parts. Simply not as conservative and not the Self Righteous assholes that permeate the US.

[xerxes]

True, but they're getting there.

[leewgrant]

sandorski sandorski:

Canadian Evangelicals are nothing like their US counter parts. Simply not as conservative and not the Self Righteous assholes that permeate the US.

There are not as vocal, don't get any media support but their views aren't much different. Many of them vote for the Christian Heritage Party in the few seats it runs candidates. They have no natural party in Canada so their votes tend to scatter and since all parties are now pro-abortion they have no natural political allies.

[ridenrain]

Libs used to have "religious" immigrant voters but they lost them when they went too far to the left. It's their own damed fault for being too arogant to recognise their base.

[BartSimpson]

sandorski sandorski:

Canadian Evangelicals are nothing like their US counter parts. Simply not as conservative and not the Self Righteous assholes that permeate the US.

I've had no problem noting that self-righteousness anymore is not the sole province of any one group. As a matter of fact, a particular left-winger usually comes to mind for me when anyone mentions 'self-righteous a$$holes'.

[leewgrant]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

sandorski sandorski:

Canadian Evangelicals are nothing like their US counter parts. Simply not as conservative and not the Self Righteous assholes that permeate the US.

I've had no problem noting that self-righteousness anymore is not the sole province of any one group. As a matter of fact, a particular left-winger usually comes to mind for me when anyone mentions 'self-righteous a$$holes'.

Guy by the name of Mike?

[DoyleG]

ridenrain ridenrain:

Libs used to have "religious" immigrant voters but they lost them when they went too far to the left. It's their own damed fault for being too arogant to recognise their base.

They still seem to have a grip on Muslim voters, as was shown in the last election.

[leewgrant]

DoyleG DoyleG:

ridenrain ridenrain:

Libs used to have "religious" immigrant voters but they lost them when they went too far to the left. It's their own damed fault for being too arogant to recognise their base.

They still seem to have a grip on Muslim voters, as was shown in the last election.

Dion's riding in St Laurent, Que is called colloquially "Scarf City". As leader he had a reason to be nice to Muslims.