Religious Voting Quotes

In 2012, those French Muslim people voted massively for Francois Hollande against Nicolas Sarkozy. With the results of elections getting even tighter, those votes can make the difference. I am obviously not in favour of a "community electorate," however, pressure is so great on them that I can easily understand how it can affect their votes.

Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the minds of political campaign managers: Pretend to be a religious fanatic and you can pick up a third of the vote right away. Nobody asked whether Lyndon Johnson went to church every day. Bill Clinton is probably about as religious as I am, meaning zero, but his managers made a point of making sure that every Sunday morning he was in the Baptist church singing hymns.

If the evangelicals vote, they determine the election.

People in Northern Ireland vote for their church, they don't vote with their heads; it is ridiculous.

If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

When politicians spoke of the electorate in ideal or didactic terms they might talk about freemen, but when they spoke about mobilizing the electorate, it was in terms of Quakers, Presbyterians, Baptist, or German [Lutheran] church interest…. Religion became the main vehicle by which ethnicity gained political representation.

In Ulster every man's creed is known and noted and ninety-nine men in a hundred vote according to their creed.

The duty of the church is to march to the ballot box, an army of Christ, with the banners of the cross, and deposit, as she can, a million votes for her true representative …

I think what you'll find is overall, overwhelmingly, evangelicals would prefer me to Barack Obama.

Republicans can vote on Sundays too, just after they go to Church.