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What's Behind the Stats of Evangelical Disengagement

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist
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Evangelicals are the least engaged with the presidential election compared to other major faith groups, even though they acknowledge the importance of the race, according to a new survey.

A national survey by Barna Group says that while less than one-third of registered voters are following the news about the election "very closely," only one out of five, or 20 percent, of evangelicals are doing so.

On the contrary, voters who associate with non-Christian faiths, including Judaism, Islam and Buddhism, reported the highest level of engagement, as 41 percent of them said they were following campaign news very closely, which is twice the proportion among evangelical Christians, notes the survey, in which 869 registered voters participated between Jan. 28 and Feb. 4.

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/evangelical-presidential-election-barna-group-christian-160341/#e1Sv3H7BA3lJMGbc.99

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