Politics. How is religion influencing your politics . Morning. We will get to your calls in a minute. Phone lines are open. Joining us is robert jones who is the ceo of Public Religion Research institute to talk about a new report that Shows Americans are divided along religious lines. Explain how sharply divided they are. See hiss what we patterns that are consistent with historic patterns in the u. S. What is notable is nothing affects the religious voting theyrns more than how responded to the civil rights act. Overall, most elections since reagan you could say White Christian voters, whether you are protestant or catholic, if youre a and christian, you tend to vote for the republican president ial candidate and nine what christians, religiously unaffiliated americans and other nonchristians tend to vote democratic. That is the pattern that we see today. The most fundamentally religious groups strongly supporting donald trump is white evangelical protestants, about two thirds suppor
Conventions. Millennialussion on women and their impact in the electoral politics. Actress and director Amber Tamblyn was among the speakers at the panel hosted by the atlantic and fashion website refinery29. This is 35 minutes. Hi, good afternoon. Hi, everybody. Welcome to the atlantic us cocktail caucus with refinery29. Thank all for being here. I hope youre having a good time this week, getting enough to treat and eat. Ner. D family emily lenz risingic is young women and the focus, Millennial Women. Perhaps of an older generation, refinery29 is a digital destination designed to help Millennial Women live, in their words, a stylish, creative, and inspired life. Millennials are a pretty big topic these days, as i think we can agree, and its no wonder they are currently the largest share of the current generation, surpassing baby boomers. Today, we are talking specifically about young women and the expectations they can have a pretty Significant Impact on this election. We have a great
Waco texas is under heightened state of alert this evening, following what is being called unprecedented violence against rival baker gangs. Nine are dead and 18 others injured. Horrible scene down there. So far 170 bike gang members have been arrested. They are be charged in engaging and organizing crime linked to capital murder. Local Authorities Say they have never seen anything like it a shootout in a suburban shopping center. I saw everything from pistol casings to rifle casings, i saw knives, i saw a club there were pools of blood, probably one of the most violent gruesome crime scenes i have seen in 35 years of service. Reporter nine lives were lost. Police say the fight began just before noon in a restaurant bathroom. It spread outside to the parking lot where police were standing by. We had wounded inside. We had people stabbed. We had people shot. And we had people beat. Reporter police say offersers and gang members were all firing. Restaurant workers and families having lun
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With what crime and policing is like in your community. If you live in an urban area, dial in at host you can also join the conversation via twitter, facebook or sent us an email. Phone lines are open. We want to know what crime and policing is like in your community and what sort of reforms, if any, you want to see. Heres the Baltimore Sun this morning front page courtesy of them. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings blake asked ooh fullscale civil rights investigation into the practices of the Baltimore Police department it would exam Excessive Force discriminatory harassment and false arrests and unlayoffal unlawful actions. Justice Department Said they received it. This is after Loretta Lynch the attorney general went to baltimore and met with the mayor and other officials in that community and now the mayor asking for a full probe of the citys police. This after a jack young and 10 members of the city county critical asked for a fullscale investigation. All are democrats. Robert is up first i