Way above their numbers. they are punching more than they are. i i think the figures for evangelicals is there s something like 14% of the population now, but 22% of the actual turnout. that s a huge difference. we can show that white j evang evangelicals, white catholics, you can look at the pie and democrats are a bigger slice of the pie, and yet there s always the push me, pull you in d demographics. in the sense that one group starts to pull this i way, and another group says i feel threatened and they pull back. that s the question. is it do you feel in looking at the research and the data that it s for lack of a better way,
Look at evangelical voters. white non-college degree, bush vs. trump, 12 points higher. white evangelicals, donald trump gets 89%. this is the backlash you re talking about. populations who feel somehow threatened. what s going on is two steps in a sense. not only are young voters voting more for democrats, but as they grow older, they are the basic rule of politics that the older you get, the more conservative you become. they are going in the opposite direction for the first time over the last three election cycles. so you see a rise in the democratic margins and a rise in the degree that they turn out. the problem is this sounds great for democrats, is that white conservatives, evangelicals, white catholics are turning out
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