{"id":2010,"date":"2010-11-05T05:41:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T10:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2010-11-05T05:41:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T10:41:49","slug":"good-things-happen-when-the-grown-ups-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/good-things-happen-when-the-grown-ups-vote","title":{"rendered":"Good things happen when the grown ups vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.faithinpubliclife.org\/2010\/11\/post-election_breakdown_religi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Faith in Public Life points out that more people over 45 and less people under 30 voted in last Tuesday&#8217;s election:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Faith in Public Life crunched some <a href=\"http:\/\/faithinpubliclife.org\/content\/press\/2010\/11\/election_results_demonstrate_e.html\">exit poll numbers<\/a> last night and asked experts on the intersection of faith and politics to provide some commentary. First, the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Eighty-seven percent of voters said they were worried about the  economy, and 62% said the economy is the most important issue facing the  country. Exit polling, however, debunks the narrative being perpetuated  by some partisans that the election was a mandate to implement a  Republican agenda. It&#8217;s hard to make that case when forty-three percent  of voters polled had a favorable view of the Democratic party, compared  to 42% who had a favorable view of the Republican party. In many ways,  the results last night can be read as a desperate cry from a weary  electorate hungry for more bipartisan cooperation to lift the nation out  of our economic crisis.  Voters in 2010 were noticeably older and more  politically conservative than the 2008 electorate. <em><strong>In 2008, 18% of  voters were under 30; this year 11% were under 30. In 2008, 53% of  voters were 45 or older; this year 67% were 45 or older.<\/strong><\/em> A significant  flip was evident among Catholic voters. In this election, 54% percent of  Catholics supported Republican House candidates, compared to 42 percent  in 2008 and 44 percent in 2006. In 2008, 54% of Catholic voters voted  for President Obama. The Senate race in Pennsylvania was an outlier, as  Catholics nearly evenly split on support for Democratic candidate Joe  Sestak and Republican candidate (and winner) Pat Toomey (51% breaking  for Toomey and 49% for Sestak).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faith in Public Life points out that more people over 45 and less people under 30 voted in last Tuesday&#8217;s election: Faith in Public Life crunched some exit poll numbers last night and asked experts on the intersection of faith &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/good-things-happen-when-the-grown-ups-vote\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}