Eric Foster
1 min readJul 11, 2019

This is a good article, I want to ask a couple of questions?

  1. Why didn’t you title the article as detailed in the body, that the voting consumer group was White Evangelicals vs the implication that the 81% was reflective of all evangelicals who voted in 2016? 78% of non-White Evangelicals voted for Clinton or 3rd party candidates.
  2. In the article I would have liked to see you break out the ethnicity divide within the Evangelical Christian community. African American, Latino American, Asian American & Arab American Evangelical Christians differ greatly from their White counterparts on an array of issues separate from just Trump. Economic policy, Immigration, Tax policy, Racial Discrimination, Social Issues identified in polling by Pew & PRRI has reflected that even though these groups share a commonality in their belief of Jesus Christ & the baptism of the Holy Spirit, there’s little else in common.
  3. I also believe an interesting juxtaposition would be to compare the difference in the White Christian community, between the Catholic, traditional Christians (Methodist, Episcopalian, Presbyterian), Mormon & Evangelical groups. In 2016, you had a higher share of Catholics (44% picking other candidates for President) and traditional Christians (51% picking other candidates for President), why? On paper, these groups share commonality on abortion, Same Sex marriage (to certain degrees) & morality values but they didn’t view Trump as their moral warrior as their White Evangelical counterparts. This would be a great area for future articles.

Just my suggestions, overall I liked the article.

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Eric Foster
Eric Foster

Written by Eric Foster

I'm a Father, 10th generation American (family roots to South Carolina, 1725 roughly), Political, Public Policy, Economic Theory & Data Analytics SME.

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