I’ve got the numbers to back that up. White evangelicals vote 75% Republican, Black church-goers vote 80%+ Democratic, and those groups are actually pretty close on most theological questions.
Since 1992, the Democratic Party voter file has had no field for religious identity. Not a poorly-filled-out field. No field. So for 34 years, there’s been no systematic way to even ask where faith voters are, let alone reach them.
Republicans figured this out a long time ago. It’s the first sort they run on any voter outreach, and it’s how they’ve been working Hispanic communities through Catholic and evangelical churches in Texas, Arizona, and California for years. Democrats are starting to reckon with that gap, and that’s what this session felt like — people reckoning with it.
So, let’s fix it! That’s the work we’re doing here at Vote Common Good.
