What the Election Tells Us About Religion in America

The fallibility of polling should make us more cautious than usual about exit poll results, but if viewed in context, they provide some interesting nuggets about the intersection of voters' religious affiliations (or lack thereof) and political preferences.

White evangelical Christians remain firmly in the Republican camp. Whether male or female, or from the North or the South, they remain in a party increasingly defined by cultural, racial and emotional factors. To them, it does not matter whether President Trump was incompetent at addressing covid-19 ;or was personally corrupt; he was their warrior against others (elites, urbanites, minorities, immigrants).