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muriel_volestrangler

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9. According to Christianity Today, apparently using AP VoteCast data, atheists were 80/20 Biden/Trump
Sat Nov 28, 2020, 10:56 AM
Nov 2020
Who will be the president of the United States for the next four years? Right now, we don’t know. Joe Biden currently holds 238 electoral votes to President Trump’s 213. But, as of Wednesday afternoon, ballots are still being counted in states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia and the final decision may take days to decide. Among white evangelical and born-again Christians, Trump earned 78 percent of the vote, according to the first 110,000 voters surveyed by the Associated Press for its VoteCast poll. Preliminary estimates from the National Election Pool put it a little lower, at 76 percent.
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Atheists are super liberal, very Democratic, very progressive. They are about 6% of the population. They voted for Biden 80/20, which is no surprise. Agnostics are a sort of slightly less liberal version of your atheist—75% of them voted for Biden in 2020.

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2020/november-web-only/election-2020-evangelicals-trump-biden-podcast.html

A pre-election poll (start of Oct) had "atheist/agnostic" at 83-11: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/10/13/white-christians-continue-to-favor-trump-over-biden-but-support-has-slipped/
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