With the looming US presidential election, I thought it would be interesting to post about an important trend in US politics, namely that religiously active people are considerably more likely to vote than the the inactive and unaffiliated. This trend was identified by Pew Research in 2019.
In most countries the gap between the religiously active, inactive and unaffiliated in negligible and not statistically relevant. In a few countries, like Estonia, the religiously unaffiliated are more likely to vote at elections. Only in a few countries are religiously active people much more likely to vote than the rest of the population, and this includes the United States, where 69% of religiously active people vote, against only 48% of the unaffiliated (+21%). The other countries surveyed are Mexico, Chile, Spain, Slovenia, Belarus, South Africa, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. In most of Europe religiosity does not affect likelihood to vote.
This is important for the upcoming election and Trump knows it. He even told American Christians yesterday that ‘God saved me for a purpose’, referring to his failed assassination attempt, which in my opinion was staged to get sympathy votes (and those of gullible Christians who think that God had anything to do with it).
In most countries the gap between the religiously active, inactive and unaffiliated in negligible and not statistically relevant. In a few countries, like Estonia, the religiously unaffiliated are more likely to vote at elections. Only in a few countries are religiously active people much more likely to vote than the rest of the population, and this includes the United States, where 69% of religiously active people vote, against only 48% of the unaffiliated (+21%). The other countries surveyed are Mexico, Chile, Spain, Slovenia, Belarus, South Africa, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. In most of Europe religiosity does not affect likelihood to vote.
This is important for the upcoming election and Trump knows it. He even told American Christians yesterday that ‘God saved me for a purpose’, referring to his failed assassination attempt, which in my opinion was staged to get sympathy votes (and those of gullible Christians who think that God had anything to do with it).