There’s a new poll out by the Barna group which surveys evangelical Christians and is considered to be very reliable. There’s lot’s of interesting information but this struck me as important: Historical data indicates that turnout among the voting age population was 53.6%in 2012 (Obama-Romney); 54.6% in 2016 (Trump-Clinton); and 61.3% in 2020(Trump-Biden). If the election were held now (about 7 weeks before November5th), the expected turnout would be 50% of voting age adults. Typically, thatturnout figure will rise several percentage points, likely concluding in the 53% to 55% range. That would put the 2024 election squarely in line with the turnout levels of 2012 and 2016, but below that of 2020. It’s big problem for Trump if any of his evangelical followers don’t vote. But one biggie there at the bottom is especially problematic this time. The voters who say the election is rigged are almost certainly his. He can’t afford to lose them. I must say, this surprised me (actually not…) Moral decline was identified by less than one-quarter of the churched Christians(23%) as a defining issue in this election. A pussy-grabbing, con-artist, pathological lying felon is running for president and most of them will vote for him so clearly, morals are not of much interest to these people anymore. Interesting, no? So what do they care about? It’s nice to see poverty and homelessness make the list but why do I think that empathy isn’t necessarily what’s driving the concern for many of them? (Maybe it’s because…