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Republican Primary Results

Arizona

 

Candidate

Votes

Vote %

Delgts

Precincts

 

County
Results

 


McCain
 


213,461


48%


50


93%
reporting

 

Romney
 

154,071

34%

0

 

Huckabee
 

40,497

9%

0

 

Paul
 

19,160

4%

0

 

Giuliani
 

12,158

3%

0


Democratic Primary Results

Arizona

 

Candidate

Votes

Vote %

Delgts

Precincts

 

County
Results

 


Clinton


191,067


51%


26

 

93%
reporting

 


Obama


157,483


42%


21

 


Edwards
 


20,278


5%


0

Commentary

Democrat
In a pattern we’ve seen before, Obama came out ahead of Clinton among the most and least religiously observant : 51 percent to 47 percent among those more-than-weekly attenders and 46 percent to 45 percent among those who never darken the door of a house of worship. (The other votes went to John Edwards.) This being a pretty unchurched Western state, the nevers outnumbered the more-than-weeklies 29 percent to 9 percent. Clinton, meanwhile, was ahead among those in the middle—who the Book of Revelation calls lukewarm.

Clinton took the vote of most religious grouping, doing somewhat better among Catholics than Protestants. “Other Christians”—a category that in all likelihood is largely comprised of non-denominational evangelicals—split almost evenly between Clinton and Obama. For his part, Obama took the votes of the seven percent of Arizonans belonging to other religions (not Muslims but Hindus, Buddhists, etc.) 56 percent to 40 percent. The 19 percent of no religion broke his way 47 percent to 41 percent.

Republican
Sixteen percent of Arizona Republican voters go to church more than once a week, and of them, 41 percent voted for Romney. All other attendance categories went to McCain. McCain won almost identical proportions of evangelicals and non-evangelicals; Romney did somewhat better among non-evangelicals. Huckabee won only 16 percent of evangelicals—which may say something about Far West evangelicalism—cf. California. It’s not as political as its Southern cousin—both in terms of issues and in terms of church-based mobilization. But don’t underestimate the importance of campaigning on the ground. Huckabee’s relatively weak support among Florida evangelicals is a commentary on his campaign’s decision not to make an effort there.

   

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