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...polls show that a majority of them oppose a constitutional amendment on abortion. But the bishops' statement might well make a difference with some of the urban, blue-collar, largely Catholic voters in the industrial states who are soft on Carter for other reasons, including his Southern Baptist evangelicalism. The abortion dispute could also profoundly influence the other right to lifers, many of whom are non-Catholics. Though they include fundamentalists, Orthodox Jews, Mormons and others, they are a small minority in the nation. But, like the gun enthusiasts, they are passionately interested in one issue, and they seem...
...faced the six prelates* in a scene that, despite its greater intimacy, could only be reminiscent of John F. Kennedy's 1960 appearance before Protestant ministers in Houston, Southern Baptist Carter reiterated his familiar position. He believes abortion to be morally wrong and opposes it except in cases where a mother's life is threatened or she is a rape victim. At the same time, he does not favor constitutional amendments that would either ban abortions or give the states the right to decide the matter. Under the scrutiny of the bishops, however, Carter wavered. He agreed with...
...have voted overwhelmingly for the party of F.D.R. and the New Deal. With Carter's popularity among blacks at 83% in the latest Gallup poll, this year promises to be no different. Blacks are drawn to Carter by his fair treatment of them as Governor of Georgia, his Baptist evangelicalism, which echoes their own language of love and trust, the presence of several high-ranking blacks in his campaign, and his support of programs like welfare reform and national health insurance. In particular, with unemployment among blacks running at 19% in urban ghettos, the jobs issue works strongly...
EVANGELICALS. Catholics and Jews may be wary of Carter's Southern Baptist religion, but it makes him enormously attractive to the country's 40 million evangelical Protestants (30 million of whom are white). They are heavily concentrated in 17 Southern and Border states but also have considerable strength in the Midwest. Conservative by nature, white evangelicals have tended in recent presidential elections to vote Republican, according to an analysis in the evangelical fortnightly Christianity Today. Carter's down-home appeal has scrambled the evangelicals' loyalty, as was demonstrated by their heavy vote...
...conservative Protestants' votes will eventually go to Episcopalian Ford, who professes to be something of an evangelical and whose son Michael attends the evangelical Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass. Ford has wooed the conservative Christian vote for months with the help of Richard Brannon, a Baptist minister and assistant personnel director at the White House...