Election Research
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Survey reports on Americans' political attitudes and worldviews.
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Item Open Access 2024 Election Research – Report #2 Decisive Christian Vote Carries Trump to Historic Victory, Post-Election Research Shows(Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, 2024-11-13) Barna, George"Post-election reports attribute the landslide victory of Donald Trump to various population segments, most notably young adults and Hispanics. Realistically, those groups were helpful but hardly indispensable to the Trump triumph. The one segment that has gotten virtually no attention from the media are Christians. Simply put, among self-identified Christians, President Trump won a 56% share of their vote. And because Christians represented 72% of the voters who turned out, their support for the re-elected Republican made the difference in the race. In comparison, among people of other faiths or no faith, Vice President Harris was preferred with 60% of the non-Christian vote. Although Harris won a larger share of the non-Christian vote than Trump’s share of the Christian votes, Christians outnumbered non-Christian voters by more than a five-to-two margin—delivering the decisive Nov. 5 victory to President Trump. These and other faith-related insights are from post-election research conducted by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, under the direction of Dr. George Barna. The survey, conducted during the three days immediately after the election, involved extensive interviews with a national sample of 2,000 voting-age adults" (Excerpt from Report).Item Open Access 2024 Pre-Election Research – Report #1 104 Million People of Faith—Including 32 Million Christian Regular Churchgoers—Projected to Abstain from Voting in November(Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, 2023-10-07) Barna, George"As the final weeks of the 2024 presidential election campaign unfold, it appears that the outcome of the close race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will depend on which candidate does a more effective job of getting their supporters to vote. A new national survey by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, led by Dr. George Barna, indicates that voting enthusiasm is significantly lower than in 2020, and that a massive number of Christians who regularly attend church services are not likely to vote in November" (Excerpt from Report).Item Open Access President Trump Will Get Overwhelming Support from Conservative Christians in 2020 – But for Different Reasons than in 2016(Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, 2020-10-29) Barna, George"A key group of conservative Christian voters who helped secure Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential victory is expected to support him in even higher, near-unanimous numbers in the upcoming election, but for very different reasons. According to a new election survey by veteran researcher Dr. George Barna, it is likely that 96% of SAGE Cons (an acronym that stands for Spiritually Active Governance Engaged Conservative Christians) will vote for Trump based on his achievements of the past four years. Less than one-half of one percent of the group are expected to vote for Joe Biden, according to the new survey commissioned by the Family Research Council (FRC)."Item Open Access CRC 2020 Post-Election Survey: “Active Conservative Christians Were Huge for Trump; SAGE Con Turnout and Trump Vote Set Records”(Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, 2020-11-24) Barna, George"(Glendale, AZ) – Donald Trump would have lost by a landslide had a significant slice of the voting populace—conservative Christians who are active both spiritually and politically—not turned out and voted for him in overwhelming numbers. Their perception of the election process and allegations of voting fraud has led a large majority of them (79%) to believe that there have been "numerous instances of abuse” in the election, with a mere 1% believing that the voting process was legally carried out and the votes were accurately counted. A survey conducted the week after the election by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University discovered that among SAGE Cons—an acronym for Spiritually Active Governance Engaged Conservative Christians—99% turned out to vote. That nearly universal turnout level dwarfed the estimated national turnout level of 66%, which itself was above-average.""Item Open Access CRC 2020 Post-Election Survey: “Finding Common Ground in 2021”(Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, 2021-01-19) Barna, George"Although 2020 will likely be remembered as one of the most contentious presidential elections in American history, a new post-election survey shows strikingly strong bipartisan support—representing a “supermajority” of more than twothirds of Republican voters and two-thirds of Democratic voters—for a number of seeming win-win policy issues in the new year."Item Open Access Cultural Research Center 2020 Post-Election Survey: America’s Thirst for Socialism Has Plummeted(Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, 2021-02-03) Barna, George"Support for socialism in the United States is at its lowest level in years—with less than a third of all American adults (32%) preferring socialism to capitalism in the wake of the 2020 election—after reaching a peak of 41% of U.S. adults only two years earlier. The latest findings from the 2020 Post-Election Survey from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University suggest a sharp and relatively rapid rejection of socialism and many of the policies likely to be promoted by President Joe Biden and the Democrat Party in the next four years."Item Open Access Cultural Research Center 2020 Post-Election Survey: President Biden’s Supporters Less Likely to Hold Biblical Worldview(Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, 2021-02-16) Barna, George"President Biden’s base of supporters is 60% less likely to hold the biblical worldview than other Americans, and although nearly two-thirds (65%) of those voters consider themselves to be Christian, many of their religious beliefs and policy positions are at odds with the views of most Americans and with traditional biblical teaching. The latest findings from the 2020 Post-Election Survey from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University provide new insights into the faith of roughly 81 million Americans—about 31% of all American adults— who voted for President Biden in November."