Non-Religious Voters Wield Clout, Lean Heavily Democratic

[signalmankenneth]

When members of the small Pennsylvania chapter of Secular Democrats of America log on for their monthly meetings, they’re not there for a virtual happy hour.

“We don’t sit around at our meetings patting ourselves on the back for not believing in God together,” said David Brown, a founder from the Philadelphia suburb of Ardmore.

The group, mostly consisting of atheists and agnostics, mobilizes to knock on doors and make phone calls on behalf of Democratic candidates “who are pro-science, pro-democracy, whether or not they are actually self-identified secular people,” he said. “We are trying to keep church and state separate. That encompasses LGBTQIA+, COVID science, bodily autonomy and reproductive rights.”

Brown describes his group as “small but mighty,” yet they’re riding a big wave.

Voters with no religious affiliation supported Democratic candidates and abortion rights by staggering percentages in the 2022 midterm elections.

And they’re voting in large numbers. In 2022, some 22% of voters claimed no religious affiliation, according to AP VoteCast, an expansive survey of more than 94,000 voters nationwide. They contributed to voting coalitions that gave Democrats victories in battleground states such as Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Arizona.

The unaffiliated — often nicknamed the “none's” — voted for Democratic House candidates nationwide over Republicans by more than a 2-1 margin (65% to 31%), according to VoteCast. That echoes the 2020 president election, when Democrat Joe Biden took 72% of voters with no religious affiliation, while Republican Donald Trump took 25%, according to VoteCast.

For all the talk of the overwhelmingly Republican voting by white evangelical Christians in recent elections, the unaffiliated are making their presence felt.

Among all U.S. adults, 29% are none's — those who identify as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular” — according a 2021 report by the Pew Research Center. That’s up 10 percentage points from a decade earlier, according to Pew.

And the younger the adults, the more likely they are to be unaffiliated, according to a 2019 Pew analysis, further signaling the growing clout of the none's.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/non-religious-voters-wield-clout-071320874.html

 

[Cypress]

I don't care what someone's private religious views are; the Democratic party would be dead in the water with the Protestant black evangelical, Latino Catholic, and Jewish vote.

The important thing is that I want to be in a political party that looks like America. The Dem party is reasonably diverse religiously and ethnically, and tends to look like America at large.

I would not want to belong to a party that is 90 percent white and 95 percent Christian. That kind of exclusivity says something about their party

 

[PostmodernProphet]

the apathetic are probably not a strong political base.......

 

[Yakuda]

[FONT=&]When members of the small Pennsylvania chapter of Secular Democrats of America log on for their monthly meetings, they’re not there for a virtual happy hour.
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[FONT=&]“We don’t sit around at our meetings patting ourselves on the back for not believing in God together,” said David Brown, a founder from the Philadelphia suburb of Ardmore.
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[FONT=&]The group, mostly consisting of atheists and agnostics, mobilizes to knock on doors and make phone calls on behalf of Democratic candidates “who are pro-science, pro-democracy, whether or not they are actually self-identified secular people,” he said. “We are trying to keep church and state separate. That encompasses LGBTQIA+, COVID science, bodily autonomy and reproductive rights.”
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[FONT=&]Brown describes his group as “small but mighty,” yet they’re riding a big wave.
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[FONT=&]Voters with no religious affiliation supported Democratic candidates and abortion rights by staggering percentages in the 2022 midterm elections.
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[FONT=&]And they’re voting in large numbers. In 2022, some 22% of voters claimed no religious affiliation, according to AP VoteCast, an expansive survey of more than 94,000 voters nationwide. They contributed to voting coalitions that gave Democrats victories in battleground states such as Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Arizona.
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[FONT=&]The unaffiliated — often nicknamed the “none's” — voted for Democratic House candidates nationwide over Republicans by more than a 2-1 margin (65% to 31%), according to VoteCast. That echoes the 2020 president election, when Democrat Joe Biden took 72% of voters with no religious affiliation, while Republican Donald Trump took 25%, according to VoteCast.
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[FONT=&]For all the talk of the overwhelmingly Republican voting by white evangelical Christians in recent elections, the unaffiliated are making their presence felt.

Among all U.S. adults, 29% are none's — those who identify as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular” — according a 2021 report by the Pew Research Center. That’s up 10 percentage points from a decade earlier, according to Pew.

And the younger the adults, the more likely they are to be unaffiliated, according to a 2019 Pew analysis, further signaling the growing clout of the none's.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/non-religious-voters-wield-clout-071320874.html

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If only they could prove it.

 

[Trumpet]

If only they could prove it.

If only you had an ounce of commonsense.

 

[Yakuda]

If only you had an ounce of commonsense.

So you can't prove there's no hell. Figured but it's nice to see you donkey dick suckers admit it. Thanks

 

[Trumpet]

So you can't prove there's no hell. Figured but it's nice to see you donkey dick suckers admit it. Thanks

Can you prove that the Tooth Fairy is real??????????????

 

[Yakuda]

Can you prove that the Tooth Fairy is real??????????????

No and even if I couldn't that's not the topic. The shit stains who put up the billboard made a claim and apparently you nor them are are bright enought to show that the billboard is true. Some people might calm that misinformation

 

[Trumpet]

No and even if I couldn't that's not the topic. The shit stains who put up the billboard made a claim and apparently you nor them are are bright enought to show that the billboard is true. Some people might calm that misinformation

Why would anyone with average intelligent waste their time reasoning with a dimwit like you???????????????????????????

 

[Yakuda]

Why would anyone with average intelligent waste their time reasoning with a dimwit like you???????????????????????????

Because retards like you and the billboard sponsor can't back up your claim. Got it. Thanks. We know it's just nice to see.

 

[leaningright]

I don't care what someone's private religious views are; the Democratic party would be dead in the water with the Protestant black evangelical, Latino Catholic, and Jewish vote.

The important thing is that I want to be in a political party that looks like America. The Dem party is reasonably diverse religiously and ethnically, and tends to look like America at large.

I would not want to belong to a party that is 90 percent white and 95 percent Christian. That kind of exclusivity says something about their party

You know, as a self-described fundamental Christian, I would go along with the democrats and vote for more of them on the national level except for a few issues. I'm just not willing to relinquish some things.

 

[Cypress]

You know, as a self-described fundamental Christian, I would go along with the democrats and vote for more of them on the national level except for a few issues. I'm just not willing to relinquish some things.

Guns?

 

[leaningright]

Guns?

Gun rights, specifically. I don’t own the dreaded AR type rifle but believe in people’s rights to own them. I also have plenty of the semi auto pistols like used in the latest Walmart shooting in Virginia that are on several of the left legislator’s “target” list.

Also I can’t get by the adamant stance by so many national candidates on abortion. In the late 90’s into the early 2000’s several of my state’s more conservative democratic candidates were pretty much abandoned financially because they wouldn’t embrace the pro death movement publicly. One, many of them were not for abortion at any cost and two, they knew it would be political suicide here to do so. Didn’t matter. Now we’re cherry red and it’s going to be hard to get back to purple…which is where most of us really are.

 

[Yakuda]

Guns?

It's really hilarious to watch you idiotic morons call for a ban on guns but you've killed 65 million babies through abortion. It's tough to take much of what you people say seriously. If you weren't such blatant hypocrites it would be much easier.

 

[Trumpet]

It's really hilarious to watch you idiotic morons call for a ban on guns but you've killed 65 million babies through abortion. It's tough to take much of what you people say seriously. If you weren't such blatant hypocrites it would be much easier.

If there is an idiotic moron, it is you and you keep proving it with your every post.

 

[Nordberg]

Gun rights, specifically. I don’t own the dreaded AR type rifle but believe in people’s rights to own them. I also have plenty of the semi auto pistols like used in the latest Walmart shooting in Virginia that are on several of the left legislator’s “target” list.

Also I can’t get by the adamant stance by so many national candidates on abortion. In the late 90’s into the early 2000’s several of my state’s more conservative democratic candidates were pretty much abandoned financially because they wouldn’t embrace the pro death movement publicly. One, many of them were not for abortion at any cost and two, they knew it would be political suicide here to do so. Didn’t matter. Now we’re cherry red and it’s going to be hard to get back to purple…which is where most of us really are.

So you are in a well-trained militia?
Warren Burger the Chief justice of the supreme court said
The gun lobbyists interpretation of the 2nd amendment is the greatest fraud, I repeat the greatest fraud, on the American people by a special interests group. that I have seen in my lifetime.
The real purpose of the 2nd amendment was to insure that state armies, the militia, would be maintained for the defense of the state. The very language of the 2nd refutes that it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon he or she desires.

 

[leaningright]

So you are in a well-trained militia?
Warren Burger the Chief justice of the supreme court said
The gun lobbyists interpretation of the 2nd amendment is the greatest fraud, I repeat the greatest fraud, on the American people by a special interests group. that I have seen in my lifetime.
The real purpose of the 2nd amendment was to insure that state armies, the militia, would be maintained for the defense of the state. The very language of the 2nd refutes that it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon he or she desires.

https://davekopel.org/2A/Mags/crburger.htm

Burger … drawn like a … well … like a gun by the gun-grabbers.

Might as well be the opinion of Hamilton Burger … it carries about as much weight.

 

[Nordberg]

https://davekopel.org/2A/Mags/crburger.htm

Burger … drawn like a … well … like a gun by the gun-grabbers.

Might as well be the opinion of Hamilton Burger … it carries about as much weight.

He was long before your pretend gun grabbers. Since that court case, we have been deluged by shootings, killing and mass murders.Apparently your love of guns makes you immune from a society that has to teach little children what to do in a school shooting. We have a mass shootings nearly every day in America. Are you OK with that? Nearly 20 million guns were bought last year in America. Do you think they made America safer? Do you see that as evidence for your imaginary gun grabbers?Burger was Chief Justice of the Supreme court. His views based in law and great legal experience. I do not give your views the same weight and the carnage since they prove he was right and you are wrong.