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DC Al Fine
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« on: August 11, 2015, 04:36:33 AM »

FTR: Romney won white non-Evangelical Protestants by about 55-45.

I think you are right that UMC is the most conservative as they are the only one with a significant Evangelical presence.

After that I'm not sure. We have to be careful to differentiate between the denomination's leadership and it's makeup. Each denomination has a mix of "social justice" congregations and "church is the respectable thing to do" congregations. The Episcopal Church leadership is very liberal but I'm sure it has a lot of country club Republicans too. The key would be to figure out the mix in each group.
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DC Al Fine
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« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2015, 01:35:27 PM »

United Church of Christ - Obama 55%
The Episcopal Church - Obama 50%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America - Obama 50%
Presbyterian Church USA - Obama 45%
United Methodist Church - Obama 35%

It's worth noting that the bulk of "members" are almost certainly non-believers or unconcerned about Christianity. Non-believing members of the Episcopal or Presbyterian Church or the UCC are almost certainly Democrats: all of these denominations are known for their educated/white collar profiles. As a result, I'd wager that the average PCUSA member is much more liberal than the average churchgoing Presbyterian.

These denominations share little in common imo. The theology of these churches may be somewhat similar but the demographic profile of the Episcopal church is really distinct from the demographic profile of the ELCA.

ELCA - the church of Scandinavians from all class backgrounds.
Episcopal Church - wealthy, upper middle class WASPs from both the South and New England. I could easily imagine Episcopal members overwhelmingly supporting Romney. I could also imagine them backing Obama.
PCUSA - tends to attract educated, white collar members; especially in the South. This was certainly the case in my congregation. There were quite a few liberals, some moderate Republicans and quite a few conservatives. I'd say that my congregation was 50-50 in 2008.

I don't know much about Methodists or the UCC.

You should be careful calling them "non-believers".  About 90% of Americans are still believers, and  not being active in a church does not make someone a "non-believer".  Most Americans still believe in God or a god.

Sure, but that doesn't necessarily make them believing/practicing Christians.
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DC Al Fine
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« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2015, 01:39:09 PM »

Related to Deadflag's point about active vs. inactive.

The PCUSA and PCA have very similar demographic profiles, but per capita giving is more than double in the PCA. While this is hardly a perfect measure, it suggests there are a lot of nominal PCUSA members dragging down the average.
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