"Indeed, marital status proved to be more important than gender and age in predicting voting."For background, read that most Christians vote conservatively and few Democrat voters even attend church.
-- W. Bradford Wilcox, University of Virginia
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And read Where Liberalism Flourishes, Population Diminishes
-- From "Family Gap: Democrats Lose Big Among Married Voters With Kids" by Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com 11/5/14
Republican House candidates bested Democratic House candidates 58 percent to 40 percent among voters who are married and have children, according to the national exit poll published by CNN.
Similarly, Republican House candidates bested Democratic House candidates 58 percent to 41 percent among all married voters, according to the exit poll.
The exit poll indicated that Democratic candidates had a stronger appeal to voters who are not married--particularly unmarried women.
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From "Analysis: Republicans Won by Doing Better Among Non-Whites, Less Religious, Unmarried, Young" by Napp Nazworth, Christian Post Reporter 11/7/14
The Republican base of married voters did not change much. In 2012, married voters were 60 percent of the electorate and 56 percent of them voted Republican. In 2014, married voters were 63 percent of the electorate and 58 percent of them voted Republican. Among unmarried voters, on the other hand, Republicans gained seven percentage points, from 35 to 42 percent.
Combining marriage with gender, Republicans gained eight percentage points among unmarried men (40 to 48 percent), and seven percentage points among unmarried women (31 to 38 percent).
. . . [voters] who attend religious services weekly or more turned out at about the same rate and voted Republican at about the same rate as they did in 2012. And, those who never attend religious services turned out at about the same rate and voted Democrat at about the same rate as they did in 2012.
This big difference for Republicans this year is how they did among the slightly religious. Those who said they attend religious services monthly or a few times a year (40 percent of the electorate in both years) favored Democrats in 2012 (55 percent) and favored Republicans in 2014 (52 percent).
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From "Marriage was a big, unheralded factor in the midterm sweep" by W. Bradford Wilcox, Deseret News 11/10/14
The CNN exit polls indicate that the Republican victory was powered in large part by a very strong showing among the groups that make up its older demographic coalition: whites, older Americans, men and the married. . . .
Moreover, as sociologist Nicholas Wolfinger has found, married Americans are much more likely to vote than their unmarried peers. Indeed, in this election, even though marrieds and unmarrieds now make up equal shares of the adult population, marrieds made up 63 percent of the 2014 electorate, while just 37 percent of the electorate was unmarried. This means that married voters constituted a disproportionate share of the electorate and a disproportionate share of the Republican vote in 2014. To wit: About 70 percent of the Republican vote in this year’s House elections came from married voters.
Why, then, are married Americans markedly more likely to vote Republican? Part of the reason, undoubtedly, is that married Americans tend to be more religious and traditionally minded in their views on social issues, which aligns them with the Republican Party’s more socially conservative stance.
. . . given the fact that the share of married Americans has fallen steadily since the 1960s, the Republican Party’s triumph in 2014 may be short-lived. For the nation’s ongoing retreat from marriage suggests that in the coming decades a shrinking share of Americans will have the relatively conservative cultural orientation or economic security associated with being married . . .
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