SIOUX CENTER, Iowa — In the ongoing AP-Yahoo News Poll, only 10 percent of white evangelical Christians say they are excited by this election, compared with 20 percent of Americans overall. A third of these evangelicals said they were interested in the election, but half said they were frustrated by it.
Stirring her morning coffee, lifelong Republican Grace Droog voiced her doubts — and those of many evangelical voters — about what she isn’t hearing from John McCain in this year’s presidential election.
“I look for something about his faith,” she said. “It’s very important; it’s what our nation was founded on.”
Nevertheless, they support McCain over Barack Obama by 62 percent to 18 percent. Although the AP-Yahoo News Poll is of all adults, not the smaller, more energized group of likely voters, McCain’s figures lag behind President Bush’s showing among white evangelical Christian voters in the 2004 election, when exit polls indicated 78 percent supported him.
