32 Million Regular Churchgoers Expected To Abstain from Voting in November

A new report from George Barna’s Cultural Research Center suggests that 104 million “people of faith” are not planning to vote in the upcoming election, including 32 million regular churchgoers.

One of the most important findings of the research is the depressed voting intent of “people of faith”.
The survey defined “people of faith” as either someone who described themselves as “a person
of religious faith” or as someone who associated with some recognized religious faith (such as
Christianity, Judaism, Mormonism, Islam, etc.).

Among those are people who are defined by their beliefs regarding sin and salvation as born-again Christians (41 million expected to not vote); self-identified Christians who regularly attend church services (32 million not expected to vote); and voting-age adults who regularly attend an evangelical church (14 million of whom are expected to not vote).

Among the reasons given for not voting, 68% said there was “a lack of interest in politics and elections,” with another 57% disliking both candidates and 50% saying “they will avoid voting because the
the election has become too controversial for their liking.”

Despite this, most churches are at least nominally politically involved.

While this does not bode well for Trump, who historically has had high support of evangelicals, we have documented over the years hundreds of woke, liberal churches that would just as soon shoot the Republican party as spit on them, and so many of the depressed voters will be liberal, progressive congregations that we don’t want anywhere near the ballot box.