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Understanding Religion, Partisanship, and Women Voters Ahead of the 2024 Presidential Election

By Filings on Mon, 05/20/24
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“This Spotlight Analysis focuses on women’s religious and partisan affiliations and considers how American women view the two likely presidential nominees…by race, education level, age, and religious affiliation.” - PRRI

Some Evangelicals Want a Third-Party Option, Even Without a Chance at Winning

By Filings on Mon, 04/15/24
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“The American Solidarity Party is a small but growing alternative to the Trump-Biden race.” - Christianity Today

Political Participation is a Biblical Stewardship

By Filings on Mon, 04/08/24
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“People’s hearts and minds are not changed by politics. But political and social engagement do impact the environment in which we can freely spread the gospel, and that is a stewardship we must honor.” - P&D

What are third parties good for?

By Filings on Thu, 11/09/23
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“A successful third-party run can siphon enough voters away from the major parties to force one or both of them to adjust their principles, policies, and rhetoric in an effort to bring those lost voters back in to the major party umbrellas.” - WORLD

“If we sit out the political process entirely... we have no one to blame when things turn in a worse direction.”

By Filings on Fri, 11/04/22
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“If we abandon politics, someone else will fill the void that we left, someone with a very different agenda than our own. This will mean suffering and pain and destruction for the nation.” - Michael Brown

The Ethical Dilemma of Abortion and Voting for Donald Trump

By Filings on Thu, 10/08/20
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“For the one tribe, failing to vote for Biden, especially since I live in Florida, is seen as me helping ensure four more years of Donald Trump. The other? Well, in their minds, refusing to vote for Trump demonstrates my lack of commitment to important social issues, specifically religious liberty and abortion.” - J. Ellis

What Makes a Vote Moral or Immoral? The Ethics of Voting

By Filings on Fri, 10/02/20
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“Does the character of a candidate matter to the ethical significance of a vote? Yes, and it does by the same chain of moral causation described above, only now culpability transfers not through issues like a, b, c, d, and e, but through the person him or herself.

David Platt on the Problems with Saying ‘You can’t be a Christian and vote for…’

By Filings on Thu, 10/01/20
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“We’ve got to work as members, leaders in churches, to foster a community where we really are quick to listen and slow to speak and slow to become angry….How do we humbly relate to one another instead of giving into this constant temptation to demonize one another, just jump to polarization of positions, straw man arguments, all of these things that we see all around us in the world?” - C.Leaders

No, this election is not a ‘battle for the heart and soul of America’

By Filings on Tue, 08/25/20
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“Politicians claiming that a political election is for the heart and soul of the nation assumes that the heart and soul of the nation belongs to political parties, politicians or institutions of government. Nothing, and I mean nothing, could be farther from the truth.” - C. Post

How, Then, Should Christians Vote? And do Evangelicals owe Bill Clinton an apology?

By Filings on Mon, 02/17/20
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“What exactly do you suggest Christians do? Should they hold their nose and vote for Trump but endeavor to still see him clearly and hold him accountable for his misconduct? Should they vote for Democrats even when Democrats would protect abortion rights and restrict religious freedom? Or should they vote third party or write in a name?” - David French

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